Proteins

Section I: NMR as a probe for protein structure.- NMR structures of proteins: Improved precision through stereospecific resonance assignments.- Molecular dynamics of peptides and proteins investigated by NMR.- Stable-isotope-assisted multinuclear NMR investigations of proteins.- NMR studies of two related phosphotransfer proteins.- Motional properties of acyl carrier protein: Effects on NMR structural data.- Analysis of backbone dynamics of interleukin-1?.- Comparative study of solution conformation of bradykinin and its analogues.- Determination of locally accurate solution protein structures and unambiguous stereo-specific 1H NMR assignments.- Assessment of cheY binding regions using 2D NMR and paramagnetic ligands.- The determination of carbon-to-nitrogen distances in melanostatin using 13C, 15N-REDOR NMR spectroscopy.- Solution conformation of neuropeptide Y: 2D NMR and molecular dynamics studies.- Proline residues in bacteriorhodopsin: Conformation and temperature dependence.- A magnetic resonance study of solution conformation of Substance P and its N-terminal fragment.- Solution conformation of dermorphin in DMSO: 2D NMR studies.- An 1H NMR study of HTyr-D-Cys-Phe-D-PenOH (JOM-13), a highlyselective ligand for the ? opioid receptor.- The precision of protein structures determined from NMR data: Reality or illusion?.- Distance geometry in distance and torsion angle space: Flexibility, convergence and sampling properties.- Section II: Optical spectroscopy as a probe for protein structure.- Probing protein secondary structure by infrared spectroscopy.- Structural studies of cucumber mosaic virus: Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic studies.- Protein conformation and stability in relation to virus assembly: Investigation of bacteriophage P22 structuralproteins by Raman spectroscopy.- Pursuit of higher order structural changes of proteins by time-resolved ultraviolet resonance Raman spectroscopy.- Femtosecond resonance Raman spectroscopy of photochemical and photophysical changes in the chromophores of some proteins.- Oriented fluorescent streptavidin conjugated phycoerythrin protein on biotinylated lipid LB monolayer films.- Conformational studies of proteins using vibrational circular dichroism.- Section III: Protein dynamics: Theory and experiment.- Protein dynamics: A brief overview.- Temperature and phase dependence of protein dynamics: A simulation study of myoglobin.- Protein dynamics from fluorescence resonance energy transfer.- Low-frequency dynamics of proteins: Comparison of experiment with theory.- Three-dimensional structure of amelogenin from 2D NMR: A molecular dynamics approach.- Analysis and interpretation of tryptophan fluorescence intensity decays in proteins.- Normal modes of crambin and molecular dynamics for structure prediction.- Analyses of statistical errors in dynamics simulations.- Derivation of solution conformers of peptide hormones via constrained molecular dynamics based on 2D NMR data.- Parallel processing and computational chemistry.- Section IV: Polypeptide and protein design: Protein engineering.- The N-terminal fragment of bovine phosphophoryn, an extracellular mineral matrix protein, shares sequence homology with viral, bacterial and eukaryotic transcriptional and post-translational regulatory proteins.- Computational and database retrieval approaches for determining polypeptide conformation 260.- Structure-activity relationships for 14-membered cyclic dermorphin analogs with two phenylalanines at the third and fourth positions.- Topographical considerations in the design of potent, receptor-selective peptide hormones and neurotransmitters.- Mimicry and antagonism in biotechnology drug discovery: Recognition peptides in protein scaffolds.- Comparative modeling of proteins in the design of novel cyclic renin inhibitors.- Helical transitions in peptides containing multiple ?,?-dialkyl amino acids.- Towards the design of structural mimics for proteins using helical peptide modules.- The