Methods in Molecular Biology

Part I: Experimental approach Chapter 1: Molecular Design of Performance Proteins with Repetitive Sequences: Recombinant Flagelliform Spider Silk as Basis for Biomaterials Charlotte Vendrely, Christian Ackerschott, Lin Romer and Thomas Scheibel Chapter 2: Creation of hybrid nanorods from sequences of natural trimeric fibrous proteins by use of the fibritin trimerization motif Katerina Papanikolopoulou, Mark J. van Raaij and Anna Mitraki Chapter 3: The Leucine Zipper as a Building Block for Self-assembled Protein Fibers Maxim G Ryadnov, David Papapostolou and Derek N Woolfson Chapter 4: Bioimimetic Synthesis of Bimorphic Nanostructures Joseph M. Slocik and Rajesh R. Naik Chapter 5: Synthesis and Primary Characterization of Self-Assembled Peptide-based Hydrogels Radhika P. Nagarkar and Joel P. Schneider Chapter 6: Periodic Assembly of Nanospecies on Repetitive DNA Sequences Generated on Gold Nanoparticles by Rolling Circle Amplification Weian Zhao, Michael A. Brook and Yingfu Li Part II: Computational approach Chapter 7: Protocols for the In silico Design of RNA Nanostructures Bruce A. Shapiro, Eckart Bindewald, Wojciech Kasprzak, and Yaroslava Yingling Chapter 8: Self-Assembly of Fused Homo-Oligomers to Create Nanotubes Idit Buch, Chung-Jung Tsai, Haim J. Wolfson, and Ruth Nussinov Chapter 9: Computational Methods in Nanostructure Design: Replica Exchange Simulations of Self-Assembling Peptides Giovanni Bellesia, Sotiria Lampoudi and Joan-Emma Shea Chapter 10: Modeling Amyloid Fibril Formation: A Free-Energy Approach Maarten G. Wolf, Jeroen van Gestel and Simon W. de Leeuw Chapter 11: Computer Modeling in Biotechnology, a Partner in Development Aleksei Aksimentiev, Robert Brunner, Jordi Cohen, Jeffrey Comer, Eduardo Cruz-Chu, David Hardy, Aruna Rajan, Amy Shih, Grigori Sigalov, Ying Yin, and Klaus Schulten Chapter 12: What Can We Learn from Highly-Connected ss-Rich Structures for Structural Interface Design? Ugur Emekli, K. Gunasekaran, Ruth Nussinov and Turkan Haliloglu