Anti-infective natural substances
The department "Anti-infectives from Microbiota" of Prof Christine Beemelmanns focuses on the identification and functional analysis of novel anti-infective natural products from microbial communities. Co-cultivation studies and cell-based assays in combination with chemical-analytical and molecular biological methods are used to evaluate new microbial natural product producers. The group uses established and innovative metabolomic, activity- and genome-guided methods to elucidate the structure of the secreted natural products. Based on the isolated natural products, the functional analysis and evaluation of their spectrum of activity is carried out. The department is based at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) in Saarbrücken,...