Protein Nanotechnology: Protocols, Instrumentation, and Applications, Second Edition

Book Overview

1. Protein Nanotechnology - What is it?

Juliet A. Gerrard

Part I: Old Proteins, New Tricks

2. Bioengineered Silk Proteins to Control Cell and Tissue Functions

Rucsanda C. Preda, Gary Leisk, Fiorenzo Omenetto, David L. Kaplan

3. Aqueous-based Spinning of Fibers from Self-Assembling Structural Proteins

Steven Arcidiacono, Elizabeth A. Welsh, Jason W. Soares

4. Fibrous Protein Nanofibres

Jeffrey E. Plowman, Santanu Deb-Choudhury, and Jolon M. Dyer

5. Self-assembling Nanomaterials: Monitoring the Formation of Amyloid Fibrils, with a Focus on Small Angle X-ray Scattering

Elizabeth B. Sawyer and Sally L. Gras

6. Amyloid Fibrils from Readily Available Sources: Milk Casein and Lens Crystallin Proteins

Heath Ecroyd, Megan Garvey, David C. Thorn, Juliet A. Gerrard, and John A. Carver

7. Formation of Amphipathic Amyloid Monolayers from Fungal Hydrophobin Proteins

Vanessa K. Morris and Margaret Sunde

8. Proteins and Peptides as Biological Nanowires: Towards Biosensing Devices

Laura J. Domigan

9. Nanotechnology with S-Layer Proteins

Bernhard Schuster and Uwe B. Sleytr

Part II: New Proteins

10. Stimuli-responsive Peptide Nanostructures at the Fluid-fluid Interface

Chun-Xia Zhao, Anton P.J. Middelberg

11. Designed Self-assembling Peptides as Templates for the Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles

Emmanouil Kasotakis and Anna Mitraki

12. Purification of Molecular Machines and Nanomotors using Phage-derived Monoclonal Antibody Fragments

Olga Esteban, Daniel Christ, and Daniela Stock

13. Determination of Enzyme Thermal Parameters for Rational Enzyme Engineering and Environmental/Evolutionary Studies

Charles K. Lee, Colin R. Monk, and Roy M. Daniel

Part III: Tools of the Trade14. Rational-Based Protein Engineering: Tips and ToolsMeghna Sobti and Bridget C. Mabbutt

15. Construction and Analysis of Randomized Protein-encoding Libraries using Error-prone PCR

Paulina Hanson-Manful and Wayne M. Patrick

16. Droplets as Reaction Compartments for Protein Nanotechnology

Sean R A Devenish, Miriam Kaltenbach, Martin Fischlechner, Florian Hollfelder

17. Label-Free, Real-Time Interaction and Adsorption Analysis 1: Surface Plasmon Resonance

Conan J. Fee

18. Label-Free, Real-Time Interaction and Adsorption Analysis 2: Quartz Crystal Microbalance

Conan J. Fee

19. Atomic Force Microscopy for Protein Nanotechnology

Dmitry V. Sokolov

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149395878X
• ISBN13: 9781493958788
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"