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SilverSURF Environmental pollution with harmful quantities of heavy metal ions has become an urgent problem in these times. SilverSURF makes use of the flagellar filament that represents one of the largest scaffolds in nature.

CancerSURF Lung cancer is one of the most malignant cancers with poor prognosis. Next to the common therapies like surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy, antibody therapy is more specific.

RiboSURF Ribosomes synthesize proteins from amino acids using mRNA as blueprint and tRNAs delivering amino acids. However, the natural ability of ribosomes is limited to 20 L-amino acids. Non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) synthesize only small peptides, however, from a large number of natural and non-proteinogenic amino acids. with non-proteinogenic amino acids.

SURFkiller The work with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) harbours the risk of their release into the nature. Therefore it is necessary to keep GMOs isolated from the environment or to make their survival in nature impossible. For this purpose, we developed a security system for Bacillus subtilis. This system is based on one of the cells most important compartment- the ribosome.