Self-Assembling Peptide Systems in Biology, Medicine and Engineering

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Aggeli, Amalia (Συγγραφέας), Boden, Neville (Συγγραφέας), Zhang, Shuguang (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Biotechnology.; Bioorganic chemistry.; Polymers.; Biochemistry.; Proteins.; Materials science.; Life Sciences.; Protein Science.; Bioorganic Chemistry.; Biochemistry, general.; Polymer Sciences.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.

One ofthe major drivers in biological research is the establishment ofstructures and functions of the 50,000 or so proteins in our bodies. Each has a characteristic- dimensional structure, highly "ordered" yet "disordered"! This structure is essential for a protein's functio...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Exploiting Peptide Self-assembly to Engineer Novel Biopolymers: Tapes, Ribbons, Fibrils and Fibres
• Ribbon-Like Lamellar Structures from Chain-Folded Polypeptides
• Design of Self-Assembling Peptides as Catalyst Mimetics Using Synthetic Combinatorial Libraries
• Thermodynamics of Protein-Protein and Peptide Interactions
• The Mechanism of Amyloid Formation and Its Links to Human Disease and Biological Evolution
• Transgenic Plants for Large Scale Production of Peptides and Proteins
• Assembly Modulation of Channel-Forming Peptides
• Molecular Casting of Infectious Amyloids, Inorganic and Organic Replication: Nucleation, Conformational Change and Self-Assembly
• Structure and Stabilisation of Self-Assembling Peptide Filaments
• Designed Combinatorial Libraries of Novel Amyloid-Like Proteins
• Design of Synthetic Branched Chain Polymeric Polypeptides for Targeting/Delivering Bioactive Molecules
• Amyloid-Like Fibrils from a Peptide-Analogue of the Central Domain of Silkmoth Chorion Proteins
• Amyloidogenesis of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (IAPP)
• Engineering Self-Assembly of Peptides by Amphiphilic 2D Motifs: ?-to-? Transitions of Peptides
• Model Signal Peptides: Probes of Molecular Interactions During Protein Secretion
• Structure, Folding and Assembly of Adenovirus Fibers
• Solving the Structure of Collagen
• Disulfide Bond Based Self-Assembly of Peptides Leading To Spheroidal Cyclic Trimers
• A New Circular Helicoid-Type Sequential Oligopeptide carrier for Assembling Multiple Antigenic Peptides
• Molecular Recognition in the Membrane: Role in the Folding of Membrane Proteins
• Novel Peptide Nucleic Acids with Improved Solubility and DNA-Binding Ability
• Chiral Lipid Tubules
• ?Tt-Mechanism in the Design of Self-Assembling Structures
• Self-assembling Peptide Systems in Biology and Biomedical Engineering.