SPP 2002:  Small Proteins in Prokaryotes, an Unexplored World

• Subject Area: Medicine ; Biology
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 313752925

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• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• International Connection: Israel, Spain

Projects

• Biological role of outer membrane vesicle-associated small proteins of the phytopathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Applicant Aktas, Ph.D., Meriyem )
• Characterizing the role of YjiS in Salmonella virulence (Applicant Vogel, Jörg )
• Chemo-enzymatic platform for the discovery of natural and functionalized sactipeptides (Applicant Kolmar, Harald )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Schmitz-Streit, Ruth Anne )
• Discovery and characterization of peptides that direct communication in phages and bacteria (Applicant Sorek, Ph.D., Rotem )
• Ecology and functions of small SCIFF proteins in the gut microbiome (Applicants Clavel, Thomas ;  Gulder, Tobias A. M. )
• Exploring small proteins in the foodborne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni (Applicant Sharma, Cynthia Mira )
• Functional and structural annotation of small proteins by advanced proteomics approaches (Applicant Rappsilber, Juri )
• Functional characterization of the membrane-depolarizing toxin TisB in Escherichia coli (Applicant Berghoff, Bork )
• Haloferax volcanii microproteins that contain two CPXCG motifs indicative for one-domain zinc finger proteins (Applicant Soppa, Jörg )
• Identification and characterization of small proteins in Staphylococcus aureus (Applicants Engelmann, Susanne ;  Fuchs, Stephan )
• Identification and functional analyses of small membrane proteins in terminal oxidases and selected model organism proteomes (Applicant Langer, Julian )
• Improving prediction and detection of small proteins for functional analysis in a consortium resembling the functions of the human microbiome (Applicants von Bergen, Martin ;  Stadler, Peter Florian )
• Investigation of small arginine-rich proteins of the DUF1127 family from Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Applicant Narberhaus, Franz )
• Molecular and functional characterization of two small proteins involved in nitrogen regulation in Methanosarcina mazei Gö1 (Applicant Schmitz-Streit, Ruth Anne )
• NMR and biophysical characterization of structure and dynamics of µ-proteins and their complexes. (Applicant Schwalbe, Harald )
• Peptide encoding and dual-function sRNAs in Bacillus subtilis (Applicant Brantl, Sabine )
• Proteomics and peptidomics for the identification and functional characterization of sORF encoded proteins (Applicants Becher, Dörte ;  Tholey, Andreas )
• Ribosome Profiling and Bioinformatics (Applicants Backofen, Rolf ;  Sharma, Cynthia Mira )
• Role of small proteins in the stress response of alpha-proteobacteria (Applicant Klug, Gabriele )
• Small membrane proteins as organizers of the bacterial membrane (Applicant Koch, Hans-Georg )
• Small proteins and dual RNA regulators regulating collective behaviors and carbon metabolism in Vibrio cholerae (Applicant Papenfort, Kai )
• Small proteins implicated in the virulence of the enteric pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (Applicant Dersch, Petra )
• Small proteins in the soybean symbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum (Applicant Evguenieva-Hackenberg, Elena )
• Systematic identification of novel µ-proteins in bacteria using ribosome profiling data (Applicant Ignatova, Zoya )
• The role of small proteins in metabolic regulation of cyanobacteria (Applicant Hagemann, Martin )
• The role of small proteins in the plant pathogen Xanthomonas (Applicants Bonas, Ulla ;  Schmidtke, Cornelius )
• The role of small proteins, peptides and dual function transcripts in cyanobacteria (Applicant Hess, Wolfgang R. )
• The Role of Small Single Transmembrane Helix Proteins in Cyanobacteria (Applicant Nowaczyk, Marc )
• The small regulatory proteins of the PhoQ/PhoP two-component system (Applicant Yuan, Jing )
• µ proteins in Haloferax volcanii: an important part of the proteome (Applicant Marchfelder, Anita )

• Spokesperson: Professorin Dr. Ruth Anne Schmitz-Streit