FInnish National Protein Crystallography Consortium

The Finnish BAG encompasses 22 groups active in crystallography in Finland. The projects vary widely and include membrane proteins and protein complexes, other proteins involved in disease and antibiotics and drug development and discovery and protein engineering (ADP-ribosylation and several oncogenic proteins including kinases, biocatalysis, endoplasmic reticulum regulation and protein secretion) and several pathogen proteins and various enzyme targets and e.g. studies on phytochrome photoreceptors as well as membrane protein targets. Overall the BAG serves the national needs for highly variable projects, with different biological and biotechnological applications. Several project will benefit from microfocus beam lines and tunable wavelength options, others benefit from quick robust screening by MASSIF, overall most experiments are conducted with help of remote access.