J. Fitter,
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Molecular Biophysics

Protein folding, co-translational protein folding, protein stability, protein encapsulation techniques, multi-domain proteins, single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy, membrane proteins and signal transduction, neutron spectroscopy, protein dynamics, hydration water, protein function-dynamics relation

Prof. Dr. Jörg Fitter

Prof. Dr. J. Fitter

2004-Deputy Director at Forschungszentrum Jülich
2002-2003Visiting Professor, Institute for Applied Physics, Universität Tübingen
2001-Group leader at Forschungszentrum Jülich
2000Habilitation in Physical Biology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
1997-2001Principal Investigator, Institute of Biochemistry TU Darmstadt and Forschungszentrum Jülich
1994-1997Postdoctoral Fellow, Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin
1994PhD in Physics from FU Berlin
1982-1990Study of Physics at the Universities of Hamburg and Vienna

Selected Publications

C. Duy and J. Fitter, Thermostability of Irreversible Unfolding alpha-Amylases Analyzed by Unfolding Kinetics, J. Biol. Chem. 280, 37360-37365 (2005)

A. Katranidis, D. Atta, R. Schlesinger, K.H. Nierhaus, T. Choli-Papadopoulou, I. Gregor, M. Gerrits, G. Büldt and J. Fitter, Fast biosynthesis of GFP molecules - a single molecule fluorescence study, Angewandte Chemie Int. Edit. 48, 1758-1761(2009)

T. Rosenkranz, A. Katranidis, D. Atta, I. Gregor, J. Enderlein, M. Grzelakowski, P. Rigler, W. Meier and J. Fitter, Observing proteins as single molecules encapsulated in surface - tethered polymeric nanocontainers, ChemBioChem 10,702-709 (2009)

J. Kriegsmann, I. Gregor, I. von-der Hocht, J. Klare, M. Engelhard, J. Enderlein, J. Fitter, Translational Diffusion and Interaction of a Photoreceptor and its Transducer observed in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles by dual-focus FCS, ChemBioChem 10, 1823-1829 (2009)

R. Inoue, R. Biehl, T. Rosenkanz, J. Fitter, M. Monkenbusch, M. Radelescu, B. Farago, D. Richter, Large domain fluctuations on 50ns timescale enable catalytic function in phosphoglycerate kinase, Biophys. J. 99, 2309-2317 (2010)

A. Kumari, T. Rosenkanz, A. Kayastha, J. Fitter, The effect of calcium binding on the unfolding barrier: A kinetic study on homologous alpha-amylases, Biophys. Chem. 151, 54-60 (2010)

T. Rosenkranz, R. Schlesinger, M. Gabba, J. Fitter, Native and unfolded states of a multi-domain protein studied by single molecule FRET, ChemPhysChem 12,704-710 (2011)