Wednesday, 18 October 2006: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Bonsai (Doubletree Hotel at Reid Park)
Molecular Origami: Conformation in Chemistry and Biochemistry
Organizer:John J. Osterhout
Presider:John J. Osterhout
8:30 AM Introductory Remarks
8:35 AM392Measuring the Energetic Balance Between Helix Formation and Hydrophobic Interactions
Wujing Xian, Peter J. Connolly, Marcela Oslin, Andrew C. Hausrath, John J. Osterhout
8:55 AM393Directed Evolution of a beta-sheet Scaffold for Targeting Protein Surfaces
Srivats Rajagopal, Scott C Meyer, Aaron J Goldman, Thaddeus J Smith, Min Zhou, Clifford I Stains, Indraneel Ghosh
9:15 AM394Syzygy: A statistical thermodynamic model describing beta-sheet formation
Andrew C. Hausrath
9:35 AM395Alzheimer's disease at the cell border: characterizing the interaction of the Alzheimer's amyloid beta peptide with lipid membranes
Jennifer R. Bethke, Savitha Devanathan, Gordon Tollin, John J. Osterhout
9:55 AM Break
10:20 AM396Sweet entanglement: role of multivalent binding to oligomannosides in the antiviral activity of cyanovirin
Giovanna Ghirlanda
10:40 AM397Design, structure-activity relationships and biological evaluation of novel bifunctional C-terminal modified peptides for opioid receptor agonists and Neurokinin-1 receptor antagonists
Takashi Yamamoto, Padma Nair, Shou-wu Ma, Sharif Moye, Peg Davis, Tally Largent, Richard Egleton, Todd W. Vanderah, Josephine Lai, Frank Porreca, Henry I. Yamamura, Victor J. Hruby
11:00 AM398Structure of Substrate Protein in Small Heat Shock Protein (sHSP)/Substrate Complexes Characterized by Solution Phase Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange and Mass Spectrometry
Guilong Cheng, Elizabeth Vilering, Vicki H. Wysocki
11:20 AM399Design and Synthesis of Homodimers of MSH Ligands with Flexible, Semi-rigid and Rigid Linkers
Rajesh Sankaranarayanan, Jatinder Josan, Yasunari Monguchi, Heather Handl, Liping Xu, Josef Vagner, Eugene Mash, Robert Gillies, Victor Hruby
11:40 AM400Quaternary Structural Analysis of Small Heat Shock Proteins by Mass Spectrometry: Chemical Biology in the Gas-Phase
Christopher M. Jones, Richard L. Beardsley, Eman Basha, Heather A. O'Neill, Guilong Cheng, Nomalie Jaya, Asiri S. Galhena, Shai Dagan, Elizabeth Vierling, Vicki H. Wysocki

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