Preface ......................................................... v
Contributors ................................................... ix
Part I: Nucleic Acid Aptamers
1 Nucleic Acid Pool Preparation and Characterization ........... 3
Shawn K. Piasecki, Bradley Hall, and Andrew D. Ellington
2 In Vitro Selection of ssDNA Aptamers Using Biotinylated
Target Proteins ............................................. 19
Günter Mayer and Thomas Höver
3 Isolating Aptamers Using Capillary Electrophoresis-SELEX
(CE-SELEX) .................................................. 33
Renee K. Mosing and Michael T. Bowser
4 In Vitro Selection of Allosteric Ribozymes .................. 45
Nicolas Piganeau
5 Cell-Specific Aptamers for Targeted Therapies ............... 59
Laura Cerchia, Paloma H. Giangrande, James O. McNamara,
and Vittorio de Franciscis
6 Aptamers Targeting RNA Molecules ............................ 79
Marguerite Watrin, Eric Dausse, Isabelle Lebars, Bernard
Rayner, Anthony Bugaut, and Jean-Jacques Toulmé
7 Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS)-Based
Characterisation of Aptamer Ligand Interaction ............. 107
Arne Werner and Ulrich Hahn
8 Structural Probing Techniques on Natural Aptamers .......... 115
Catherine A. Wakeman and Wade С. Winkler
9 Determining Structures of RNA Aptamers and Riboswitches
by X-Ray Crystallography ................................... 135
Andrea L. Edwards, Andrew D. Garst, and Robert T. Batey
10 Locked Nucleic Acid Aptamers ............................... 165
Jan Barciszewski, Michael Medgaard, Troels Koch, Jens
Kurreck, and Volker A. Erdmann
11 Screening of Novel Inhibitors of HIV-1 Reverse
Transcriptase with a Reporter Ribozyme Assay ............... 187
Satoko Yamazaki and Michael Famulok
12 Aptamers as Artificial Gene Regulation Elements ............ 201
Beatrix Suess and Julia E. Weigand
13 Aptamers and Biosensors .................................... 209
Thomas M.A. Gronewold
14 Nanoparticles/Dip Stick .................................... 223
Yi Lu, Juewen Liu and Debapriya Mazumdar
15 In Vivo Imaging of Oligonucleotidic Aptamers ............... 241
Bertrand Tavitian, Frédéric Ducongé, Raphael Boisgard,
and Frédéric Dollé
Part II: Peptide Aptamers
16 Selection of Peptides Interfering with Protein-Protein
Interaction ................................................ 263
Annette Gaida, Urs B. Hagemann, Dinah Mattay, Christina
Räuber, Kristian M. Müller, and Katja M. Arndt
17 In Vitro Selection of Protein and Peptide Libraries Using
mRNA Display ............................................... 293
Terry T. Takahashi and Richard W. Roberts
18 Ligand-Regulated Peptide Aptamers .......................... 315
Russell A. Miller
19 Isolation of Peptide Aptamers to Target Protein Function ... 333
Luisa Lopez-Ochoa, Тага Е. Nash, Jorge Ramirez-Prado,
and Linda Hanley-Bowdoin
20 MicrobodiesTM .............................................. 361
Hans-Ulrich Schmoldt, Matin Daneschdar, Harald Kolmar,
and Michael Blind
21 Peptide Aptamers for Small Molecule Drug Discovery ......... 373
Carine Bardou, Christophe Borie, Marc Bickle, Brian
B. Rudkin, and Pierre Colas
22 Synthesis and Application of Peptides as Drug Carriers ..... 389
Robert Rennert, Ines Neundorf, and Annette G.
Beck-Sickinger
Index ......................................................... 405
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