Preface Ernest James Petersson 1. Hydrogen Bond Surrogates Paramjit Arora 2. Thioamides in Peptides Jayanta Chatterjee 3. Methanobactin biosynthesis Laura Massah Kulah Dassama 4. Exploring the Effects of Backbone Modification on Protein Translation Ruben L. Gonzalez Jr. 5. Urea-based Foldamers Gilles Guichard 6. Analysis of Structure and Folding Energetics in Heterogeneous Backbone Proteomimetics William Seth Horne 7. Backbone Modification with Recombinant Enzymes Nilkamal Mahanta 8. Constrained Peptides for Investigating Amyloid Structures James Nowick 9. Thioamides in Proteins Ernest James Petersson 10. Aza-Amino Acids in Peptides Caroline Proulx 11. N-Terminal Protein Modification Alanna Schepartz 12. Incorporation of Backbone Modifications in mRNA-Displayed Peptides Hiroaki Suga 13. Chloroalkene Isosteres Hirokazu Tamamura 14. Incorporation of Proline Analogs into Proteins Expressed in E. coli David Tirrell 15. Backbone Modifications in Lanthipeptides Wilfred van der Donk 16. Peptoids Ron Zuckermann 17. N-amino peptides Juan Del Valle 18. Enzymatic Peptide N-Methylation Markus Künzler
E. James Petersson, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA