Self-Assembling Peptide Systems in Biology, Medicine and Engineering

Foreword. 1. Exploiting peptide self-assembly to engineer novel biopolymers: tapes, ribbons, fibrils and fibres; A. Aggeli, et al. 2. Ribbon-like lamellar structures from chain-folded polypeptides; E.D.T. Atkins. 3. Design of self-assembling peptides as catalyst mimetics using combintatorial libraries; S.E. Blondelle, et al. 4. Thermodynamics of protein-protein and peptide interactions; A. Cooper. 5. The mechanism of amyloid formation and its links to human disease and biological evolution; C.M. Dobson. 6. Transgenic plants for large scale production of peptides and proteins; K. Düring. 7. Assembly modulation of channel-forming peptides; S. Futaki. 8. Molecular casting of infectious amyloids, inorganic and organic replication: nucleation, conformational change and self-assembly; D.C. Gajdusek. 9. Structure and stabilisation of self-assembling peptide filaments; N.J. Gay, et al. 10. Designed combinatorial libraries of novel amyloid-like proteins; M.H. Hecht, et al. 11. Design of synthetic branched-chain polymeric polypeptides for targeting/delivering bioactive molecules; F. Hudecz. 12. Amyloid-like fibrils from a peptide-analogue of the central domain of silkmoth chorion proteins; V.A. Iconomidou, S.J. Hamodrakas. 13. Amyloidogenesis of islet amyloid polypetide (IAPP); A. Kapurniotu. 14. Engineering self-assembly of peptides by Amphiphilic 2D motifs: alpha- to -beta transitions of Peptides; H. Mihara, et al. 15. Model signal peptides: probes of molecular interactions during protein secretion; A. Miller, et al.16. Structure, folding and assembly of adenovirus fibers; A. Mitraki, et al. 17. Solving the structure of collagen; A. Rich. 18. Disulfide bond based on self-assembly of peptides leading to spheroidal cyclic trimers; M. Royo, et al. 19. A new circular helicoid-type sequential oligopeptide carrier for assembling multiple antigenic peptides; M. Sakarellos-Daitsiotis, et al. 20. Molecular recognition in the membrane: role in the folding of membrane proteins; Y. Shai. 21. Novel peptide nucleic acids with improved solubility and DNA-binding ability; M. Sisido, M. Kuwahara. 22. Chiral lipid tubules; M.S. Spector, et al. 23. &Dgr; Tt-Mechanism in the design of self-assembling structures; D.W. Urry, et al. Self-assembling peptide systems in biology and biomedical engineering; S. Zhang, M. Altman. Index.