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Contents<br />

Preface............................................................ v<br />

Contributors....................................................... ix<br />

1. <strong>Peptide</strong>-<strong>Based</strong><strong>Drug</strong><strong>Design</strong>:HereandNow.....................<br />

Laszlo Otvos, Jr.<br />

1<br />

2. Strategies for the Discovery, Isolation, and Characterization<br />

of Natural Bioactive <strong>Peptide</strong>s from the Immune System<br />

ofInvertebrates..............................................<br />

Philippe Bulet<br />

9<br />

3. Sequence Analysis of Antimicrobial <strong>Peptide</strong>s by Tandem Mass<br />

Spectrometry................................................<br />

Christin Stegemann and Ralf Hoffmann<br />

31<br />

4. The Spot Technique: Synthesis and Screening of <strong>Peptide</strong><br />

MacroarraysonCelluloseMembranes.......................<br />

Dirk F.H. Winkler and William D. Campbell<br />

47<br />

5. Analysis of A� Interactions Using ProteinChip Technology . . . . . .<br />

Eleni Giannakis, Lin-Wai Hung, Keyla Perez Camacaro,<br />

David P. Smith, Kevin J. Barnham, and John D. Wade<br />

71<br />

6. NMR in <strong>Peptide</strong> <strong>Drug</strong> Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br />

Jan-Christoph Westermann and David J. Craik<br />

87<br />

7. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of <strong>Peptide</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

Jeffrey Copps, Richard F. Murphy, and Sandor Lovas<br />

8. Short Linear Cationic Antimicrobial <strong>Peptide</strong>s: Screening,<br />

Optimizing,andPrediction.................................. 127<br />

Kai Hilpert, Christopher D. Fjell, and Artem Cherkasov<br />

9. Investigating the Mode of Action of Proline-Rich Antimicrobial<br />

<strong>Peptide</strong>s Using a Genetic Approach: A Tool to Identify New<br />

Bacterial Targets Amenable to the <strong>Design</strong> of<br />

NovelAntibiotics............................................161<br />

Marco Scocchi, Maura Mattiuzzo, Monica Benincasa,<br />

Nikolinka Antcheva, Alessandro Tossi, and Renato Gennaro<br />

10. Serum Stability of <strong>Peptide</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177<br />

Håvard Jenssen and Stein Ivar Aspmo<br />

vii

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