Professor Jonathan Heddle, a Principal Investigator based at the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB), has been awarded a an approx. 23 million PLN Leverhulme International Professorship award.
Wobble uridine carboxymethylation at the tRNAs anticodon is essential for correct protein synthesis. In archaea and bacteria the modification reaction is catalyzed by the Elp3 enzyme, while in eukaryotes the enzyme is a part of the large multi-subunit Elongator complex. The latest work of scientists from the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB/UJ) describes the first high resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure of Elongator, which sheds light on the role of the Elp456 subcomplex
The ranking - compiled by Stanford University in cooperation with the publishing house Elsevier and the SciTech Strategies company - evaluates, among other things, the scholars' scientific achievements based on a bibliometric index
Recent work of the Bionanoscience and Biochemistry Lab at the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology has been featured on a journal cover