Structure and Activity of Natural Peptides

STRUCTURE AND ACTIVITY (VOELTER/WEITZEL) E-BOOK

Résumé
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Surveys Of Selected Topics -- Isolation, Structure Elucidation And Synthesis Of Gastrointestinal Hormones - Critical Aspects -- Amatoxins And Phallotoxins - Structure And Toxicity -- Insulin, A Challenge For Peptide Chemistry -- Research On Thymic Peptides And Immunocompetence -- Properties Of The Membrane Modifying Polypeptide Antibiotics Alamethicin And Trichotoxin A-40 -- Neuropeptides: Subcellular Localization Of Acth And Related Peptides -- Molecular Weight And Structure Analysis Of Oligopeptide Hormones And Peptide Conjugates By Field Desorption Mass Spectrometry -- Crystal Structure Analyses Of Polypeptides -- II. Isolation Of New Peptides -- New Toxic Cyclopeptides From Amanita Virosa Mushrooms -- Competitive Inhibition Of Benzodiazepine Binding By Fractions From Porcine Brain -- ß - Casomorphins Exorphins Derived From Casein Peptone -- Structure Of Sauvagine, A Vasoactive Peptide From The Skin Of A Frog -- Herbicolins - New Peptide Antibiotics From Enterobacteria -- III. Methods of Purification, Isolation and Characterization of Peptides -- Simultaneous determination of the amino acid, amino sugar and neutral sugar content in glycoproteins -- Differential evolution of the - and -chains of bird hemoglobins. investigations on the greylag goose (anser anser) -- Purification Of Fluorescein-Labeled Chymotrypsin By Isoelectric Focusing After Biospecific Adsorption To Soybean Trypsin Inhibitor -- The Ability Of Thyroliberin To Coordinate Some Transition Metal Ions -- Television Densitometry Microassay Of Proteins In The Nanogram Range On Cellulose Acetate Membranes -- A Method For The Determination Of Corticotropin (Acth) In Rat Plasma And Rat Pituitaries -- Investigation Of Interactions Between Immobilized Lysine Residues And Oligodeoxyribonucleotides By A Column Chromatographic Procedure -- IV. Peptide Syntheses -- Totally Synthetic Thymosin-1 , A Lymphocytes Stimulating Polypeptide Of The Thymus -- Vasopressin Analogs For Affinity Labeling - Synthesis And Activities On Bovine Kidney Plasma Membranes And Frog Skin -- Synthesis Of MCD-Peptide And Apamin By Liquid Phase Fragment Condensation -- Synthetic Routes To Enkephalin -- 1-(1-Adamantyl)-1-Methylethoxycarbonyl (Adpoc): A New Useful Amino Protecting Group -- Synthesis Of Thyroliberin Analogs With Modified Pyroglutamyl Residues -- Planning Of Peptide Syntheses By The Aid Of Electronic Data-processing -- Synthesis And Antigenic Properties Of A New Steroid Hapten: 7--Carboxyethylmercapto-5-Androstene-3ß, 17ß Diol-Bovine Serum Albumin -- V. Miscellaneous and Biological Activity of Peptides -- Degradation Of TRF And Tiff Analogues By Brain And Serum Enzymes -- Steric And Electronic Structure Of The Thïrotropin-Releasing Hormone -- Activity of Thyroliberin Analogs with a Modified Pyroglytamyl Residue on the Central Nervous System -- Intermittent Pernasal Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Therapy in Male Patients with Delayed Puberty -- Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Derivatives and 'Sequence Fragments of the MCD-Peptide from Bee Venom -- The Behavior of Urinary Hydroxyproline Concentration in Healthy Subjects and in Patients with Prostatic Ciarcinoma with and without Bone Metastases -- Physiological And Clinical Aspects Of Hypothalamic-Pituitaryovarian Maturation -- Natural Peptide Lactones As Ion Carriers In Membranes -- Different Effects Of Thymus Extracts On Human Fibroblasts And Cancer Cells In Culture -- Studies With Melanostatin (Mif) And Bromoergocryptine In Patients With Amenorrhea And Hyperprolactinemia -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter