LP3 will provide capabilities within protein production, biophysical characterization and protein structure determination to help VIGILANT achieve its goals. VIGILANT: Targeting ER Import And Activation Of Viral Glycoproteins: Towards Broad-Spectrum AntiviralsLP3 will provide capabilities within protein production, biophysical characterization and protein structure determination to a new EU resear

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-collaborates-new-eu-research-project-vigilant - 2025-09-11

Registration is now open for the 21st Protein Production and Purification Partnership in Europe Meeting. REGISTRATION is now OPEN for the 21st P4EU Meeting in Gothenburg, 25th-27th August 2025! Hosted this year by the Universities of Lund and Gothenburg of Protein Production Sweden.Information regarding the tentative program can be found here!Registration closes May 4th.  

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/registration-now-open-21st-p4eu-meeting-gothenburg-aug-25-27th - 2025-09-11

LP3 attended the 28th Swedish Conference on Macromolecular Structure & Function (SWEPROT) in Tällberg last weekend and presented our capabilities through several posters. Several PPS team members visited the meeting with around 130 other participants from the Swedish protein science community.More info on SWEPROT is found on the homepage (external).

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-tallberg-conference-2025 - 2025-09-11

Several LP3 members presented our capabilities with a poster at the first conference held in Linxs new facilities. The conference was held to celebrate the opening of the LINXS at Brunnshög in the newly build Loop (more info here on Linxs homepage). Several staff members of PPS visited the opening with many national and international participants interested in X-ray and neutron applications.

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-inagural-conference-new-linxs - 2025-09-11

3D structure of Nsp10 from the new corona virus SARS-cov-2. An international collaboration between the Lund Protein Production Platform (LP3), the UCL School of Pharmacy and ESS, through its DEMAX platform, has initiated biophysical and structural studies of three non-structural proteins from the novel coronavirus, SARS CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. Recently we managed to solve the struc

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/collaborative-research-project-corona-virus-proteins - 2025-09-11

Results from the collaborative corona virus protein research project involvning Lund Protein Production Platform (LP3), the UCL School of Pharmacy and ESS, through its DEMAX platform have been published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/results-collaborative-corona-virus-protein-research-project-published - 2025-09-11

LP3 activities will be limited during the summer, especially in July and early August. In the meantime, here’s some recommended summer reading:

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/recommended-summer-reading - 2025-09-11

FragMAX, a project run in collaboration between LP3, MAXIV, Astra Zeneca and SARomics Biostructures, has been awarded funding from the Swedish Research Council. The project aims to establish a fragment based screening facility, enabling scientists and small companies to screen low molecular weight fragments for binding to target proteins using X-ray crystallography.Read more about the FragMAX proj

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/fragmax-awarded-funding-swedish-research-council - 2025-09-11

LP3 was successful in its application for renewal of beamtime access at BioMAX (the X-ray macromolecular crystallography beamline of MAX IV). The protein structure pipeline at LP3 is now established. Users can get their protein samples crystallised and the resulting crystals can on a regular basis be evaluated for diffraction and data can be collected. Processing of X-ray data and solving structur

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/renewal-beamtime-access-biomax-and-allocated-time-scilifelab-cryo-em-facility - 2025-09-11

A team from the Lund Protein Production Platform, Karolinska Institute, and the European Spallation Source have published an optimized approach to high-yield protein deuteration at low cost, for neutron protein crystallography in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics (external website). 

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/more-less-low-cost-high-yield-protein-deuteration-neutron-crystallography - 2025-09-11

The baculovirus-insect cell expression system has become one of the most widely used eukaryotic expression systems for heterologous protein production in many laboratories. To date, limited data has been presented in the literature to benchmark the protocols used for baculovirus vectors, and this study facilitates the selection of a system for optimal production of target proteins. The benchmarkin

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/baculovirus-driven-protein-expression-insect-cells-benchmarking-study - 2025-09-11

LP3 has been granted beamtime at the X-ray macromolecular crystallography beamline of MAX IV, BioMAX. This allows users to have their crystals rapidly evaluated for diffraction. With funding from BioCARE (a governmental supported strategic research area in cancer (external website)) the Lund Protein Production Platform, LP3, can also offer the possibility to process data and solve structures. Assi

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/beamtime-biomax - 2025-09-11

The Lund Protein Production Platform is one of several protein production facilities in Sweden that form the Protein Production Network Sweden (PPNS), each with its own specialties and focus. PPNS is an informal network formed in 2013 between protein production facilities at Swedish universities. The overall aim is to make competence and protein production methodologies available to the Swedish ac

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/protein-production-network-sweden-launches-new-website - 2025-09-11

The DEuteration and MAcromolecular Xtallization (DEMAX) platform of the European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS) moved into Biology House A at Lund University and is now co-localized with the Lund Protein Production Platform (LP3). DEMAX (external website) and LP3 are collaborating to coordinate their efforts to develop cost-effective production of deuterated biomaterials (lipids and proteins) for ne

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/partnership-between-lp3-and-demax - 2025-09-11

A Bioscreen C system for microbiological growth studies is now available at LP3. The Bioscreen C (external website) can incubate, shake, and measure the turbidity (OD) of up to 200 samples simultaneously. 

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/new-system-microbiological-growth-monitoring - 2025-09-11

LP3 is part of the Protein Production Network Sweden (PPNS) that aims to make multiple protein expression hosts, methodologies and competence in protein production available to the Swedish academic life science community. Collaboration between Swedish protein production sites is crucial in order to solve complex scientific questions and in a pilot effort to test a new joint approach, five proteins

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/protein-production-network-sweden-pilot-expression-screen-completed - 2025-09-11

LP3 is taking part in the formation of a network of Swedish protein production facilities together with Protein Science Facility at Karolinska Institutet/SciLifeLab (external website) Mammalian Protein Expression at Göteborg University (external website) Protein Expertise Platform at Umeå University (external website) Drug Discovery and Development platform at SciLifeLab (external website) The net

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/network-swedish-protein-production-facilities - 2025-09-11

Right now LP3 is in the process of establishing the Baculovirus Expression Vector System (BEVS) – a system for expression of recombinant proteins in insect cells. This system will complement the current LP3 capabilities to express proteins in bacteria and yeast. The BEVS, being a eukaryotic expression system, has its strength in producing proteins from higher eukaryotic organisms that have failed

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/eukaryotic-expression-system - 2025-09-11

Under den pågående CoViD-19 pandemin har förståelsen för virusets proteiner varit en central del i forskningen om SARS-CoV-2, eftersom det är genom proteinkontakter som viruset invaderar människans celler. På flera universitet i Sverige finns faciliteter som producerar proteiner för olika forskningsprojekt och som ingår i ett nätverk kallat Protein Produktion Sverige (PPS). PPS har genom sitt nati

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/med-proteiner-som-nycklar-till-sars-cov-2-sa-har-vi-lart-oss-mer-om-viruset - 2025-09-11

By fragment screening using x-ray crystallography we identified four ligands revealing ligand-binding sites in conserved interfaces between SARS-CoV-2 nsp10 and nsp14/nsp16. The nsp14/10 interaction is weak and therefore could be disrupted by small molecules. In a collaborative effort, the Lund Protein Production Platform (LP3), the FragMAX platform at the BioMAX beamline of the MAX IV laboratory,

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/fragmax-library-identifies-ligand-binding-sites-nsp10-and-nsp1416-interfaces-sars-cov-2 - 2025-09-11