Groth Group

Group leader

Title	Name	First Name	Position
Prof. Dr.	Groth	Georg

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Researchers

Title	Name	First Name	Position
Dr.	Voet van Vormizeele	Jan	Senior Scientist

BioStruct Fellow

Title	Name	First Name	Position
MSc	Grieben	Mariana	PhD student

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Further Team Members

Technicians:	1
Master/Diploma students:	3
PHD/MD students:	4

Contact

Groth Georg
Biochemical Plant Physiology
Plant Biochemistry
Heinrich Heine University
Universitaetsstr. 1
40225 Düsseldorf

+49(0)211-81-12822
+49(0)211-81-13569


website:
http://www.biologie.uni-duesseldorf.de/home/Fakultaeten/math_nat/WE/Biologie/Institute/Biochemische_Pflanzenphysiologie

Expertise in Structural Biology

• X-ray crystallography
• Fluorescence Spectroscopy

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Main areas of research interest

• Structure and molecular mechanism of plant membrane proteins (ATP synthase, plant hormone receptors)
• Plant hormone signalling
• Protein-protein interaction
• Functional characterization of proteins by single molecule techniques
• Regulation of plant ATP synthase by phytotoxins

Facilities

The laboratories cover the following gene technology security levels:

S1

Other security laboratories or special facilities:

• Radioactive laboratory
• Greenhouses

Laboratory Equipment

General equipment available in the laboratories:

• Biochemistry
• Biophysics
• Molecular biology
• Microbiology
• Plant Biology

Special equipment, which is not generally available in most laboratories:

• X-ray generator
• crystallization robot

Important References

• Groth, G. & Pohl. E. (2001). The Structure of the Chloroplast F1-ATPase at 3.2 Å Resolution. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 1345-1352.
• Groth, G. (2002). Structure of spinach chloroplast F1-ATPase complexed with the phytopathogenic inhibitor tentoxin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 99, 3464-3468.
• Pavlova, P., Shimabukuro, K., Hisabori, T., Groth, G., Lill, H. & Bald, D. (2004). Complete inhibition and partial re-activation of single F1-ATPase molecules by tentoxin: New properties of the re-activated enzyme. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 9685-9688.
• Meiß, E., Konno, H., Groth, G. & Hisabori, T. (2008). Molecular Processes of Inhibition and Stimulation of ATP Synthase Caused by the Phytotoxin Tentoxin. J. Biol. Chem. 283, 24594-24599.
• Scharein, B., Voet van Vormizeele, J., Harter, K. & Groth, G. (2008). Ethylene signalling: Identification of a putative ETR1-AHP1 phosphorelay complex by fluorescence spectroscopy. Anal. Biochem. 377, 72-76.

Cooperators

• Chang, Caren, Prof. Dr., University of Maryland, USA
• Hisabori, Toru, Prof. Dr., Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Harter, Klaus, Prof. Dr., Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tuebingen, Germany
• Simon, Rüdiger, Prof. Dr., University of Düsseldorf, Germany