Peptide Self-Assembly

 Part I: Fundamental Methods for Characterizing Peptide Self-Assembly  1.    Methods for Structural Analysis of Aggregates Formed by Self-Assembling PeptidesV. Castelletto and I. W. Hamley 2.    Solid state NMR Structural Characterization of Self-assembled Peptides With Selective 13C and 15N Isotopic Labels Danting Huang, Benjamin C. Hudson, Yuan Gao, Evan K. Roberts, and Anant K. Paravastu 3.    ATR-FTIR Analysis of Amyloid ProteinsJean-Marie Ruysschaert and Vincent Raussens 4.    Imaging Protein Fibers at the Nanoscale and In SituAngelo Bella, Michael Shaw, Emiliana De Santis, and Maxim G. Ryadnov 5.    Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics: A Practical Application Protocol with Solutions to Common Problems and a Peptide Aggregation and Self-Assembly ExampleRuxi Qi, Guanghong Wei, Buyong Ma and Ruth Nussinov 6.    An Aggregate Weight-normalized thioflavin-T Measurement Scale For Characterizing Polymorphic Amyloids And Assembly IntermediatesRonald Wetzel, Saketh Chemuru, Pinaki Misra, Ravi Kodali, Smita Mukherjee, and Karunakar Kar 7.    Nanoparticle Tracking for Protein Aggregation Research Xiaomeng Lu and Regina M. Murphy 8.    Peptide Self-assembly Measured using Fluorescence Correlation SpectroscopyJudith J. Mittag, Joachim O. Rädler,  and  Jennifer J. McManus Part II:  Methods for the Preparation of Functional Self-Assembled Peptide Biomaterials 9.    A General Method to Prepare Peptide-based Supramolecular HydrogelsDan Yuan, Junfeng Shi, Ning Zhou, and Bing Xu      10. Recursive Directional Ligation Approach for Cloning Recombinant Spider SilksNina Dinjaski, Wenwen Huang, and David L. Kaplan 11. Synthesis of Mikto-Arm Star Peptide ConjugatesJin Mo Koo, Hao Su, Yi-An Lin, and Honggang Cui 12. Synthesis and Evaluation of Self-Assembled Nanostructures of Peptide-pi chromophore conjugatesTejaswini S. Kale and John D. Tovar 13. Programmable Fabrication of Multi-layer Collagen Nanosheets of Defined Composition Tao Jiang and Vincent P. Conticello 14. Practical Considerations in the Design and use of Immunologically Active Fibrillar Peptide Assemblies Carolina Mora Solano,Yi Wen, Huifang Han, and Joel H. Collier 15. Microwave-assisted Synthesis and Immunological Evaluation of Self-Assembling Peptide Vaccines C. Brent Chesson, Rojelio Elias Alverado, and Jai S. Rudra 16. Preparation and Screening of Catalytic Amyloid AssembliesZsofia Lengyel, Caroline M. Rufo, and Ivan V. Korendovych 17. Self-assembly of Filamentous Cell Penetrating Peptides for Gene Delivery Dawei Xu, Louis DeRidder, Brendan Elmore, and He Dong 18. Biogelx: Cell Culture on Gels based on Aromatic Peptide AmphiphilesMhairi M. Harper, Michael L. Connolly, Laura Goldie, Eleanore J. Irvine, Joshua E. Shaw, Vineetha Jayawarna, Stephen M. Richardson, Matthew J. Dalby, David Lightbody, and Rein V. Ulijn   Part III: Methods Related to Preparing, Characterizing and Inhibiting Pathological Amyloid Peptide Self-Assembly 19. Production and use of Recombinant Abeta for Aggregation StudiesTiernan T. O'Malley, Sara Linse, and Dominic M. Walsh 20. Disaggregation of Ab42 for Structural and Biochemical Studies Hyewon Chung, Elliot Crooks, Martine Ziliox, and Steven O. Smith 21. Preparation of Stable Amyloid-beta Oligomers Without Perturbative MethodsSamuel A. Kotler and Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy 22. Discriminating Strains of Self-Propagating Protein Aggregates Using a Conformational Stability AssayHeather H.C. Lau, Angus Lau,and Joel C. Watts 23. Model Phospholipid Liposomes to Study the b-Amyloid-Peptide-Induced Membrane DisruptionWei Qiang and Katelynne E. Doherty       24. Using Molecular Tweezers to Remodel Abnormal Protein Self-assembly and Inhibit the Toxicity of Amyloidogenic ProteinsRavinder Malik, Jing Di, Gayatri Nair, Aida Attar, Karen Taylor, Edmond Teng, Frank-Gerrit Klärner, Thomas Schrader, and Gal Bitan 25. Incorporation of an azobenzene b-turn Peptidomimetic into Amyloid-b to Probe Potential Structural Motifs Leading to b-sheet self-assembly Todd M. Doran and Bradley L. Nilsson 26. Solid State NMR Studies of Amyloid Materials: A Protocol to Define an Atomic Model of Abeta(1-42) in Amyloid Fibrils Yiling Xiao, Dan McElheny, Minako Hoshi, and Yoshitaka Ishii 27. Experimental and Computational Protocols for Studies of Cross-seeding Amyloid AssembliesBaiping Ren, Rundong Hu, Mingzhen Zhang, Yonglan Liu, Lijian Xu, Binbo Jiang, Jie Ma, Buyong Ma, Ruth Nussinov, and Jie Zheng... Mehr