Drug Transporters research Group

Our overall goal is to understand drug distribution and metabolism by integral membrane transport proteins and enzymes, respectively. By reaching a molecular-level structural understanding of these processes, our research provides a basis for further drug development.

Drug Transporters research Group

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our primary focus is on proton-coupled secondary active transporters that beside playing a major role in physiology, influence uptake and distribution of drugs. Understanding their structural dynamics, how they recognize substrates, interact with inhibitors, and perform the transport cycle and are energized by the electrochemical proton-gradient. Secondly, we are interested in enzymes involved in castration resistant prostate cancer and are prime therapeutic targets. We collaborate with medicinal chemists to provide 3D structures of the enzymes in complex with promising drug-candidates. Our key experimental techniques are recombinant protein protduction, X-ray crystallography and CryoEM, but also functional assays combined with mutational studies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Group leader

Group Leader

Osman Mirza
Associate Professor

Phone +45 3533 6175
om@sund.ku.dk

Project members

Name Title Phone E-mail
Frydenvang, Karla Andrea Associate Professor +4535336207 E-mail
Hussain, Samrina PhD Student E-mail
Mirza, Osman Asghar Associate Professor +4535336175 E-mail

Name Title E-mail
Ruyu Yan PhD student ruyu.yan@sund.ku.dk
Murtadha Faris Abbas Al-Mousawi Master's thesis student
Azra Arifi Bachelor student
Zilan Aydelik Bachelor student
Sabrine Lawrence Risshisherungan Bachelor student
Lina Agam Project student
Siham Abdi Mohamed Project student