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RESEARCH GROUP
| Medical Chemistry Group
Danuta WitkowskaUO
subject
Macromolecular complexes including interactions involving nucleic acids, proteins, lipids and carbohydratesBiochemistryChemical biologydescription
The Medical Chemistry Group is focused on medicinal and bioinorganic chemistry, mainly related to peptides and proteins. In general, projects on the interaction of biologically important macromolecules with other molecules or metal ions are underway. Two National Science Centre grants are being realized by group members. One of them is about hot topic – SARS-Cov2/virus protein interaction with human receptor. The second is about interaction of iron ions with small heat shock protein, which is involved in ferroptosis (programmed cell death dependent on iron). Cooperation includes research centers in Poland and abroad, e.g. University of Wroclaw and USA, but also other faculties of University of Opole, i.e. Faculty of Chemistry and Faculty of Medicine.