Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. Isolation and Structure Elucidation of Peptides and Proteins -- THE PRIMARY STRUCTURE OF DNA-DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE FROM E. coli. NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE OF rpoB GENE AND AMINO ACID SEQUENCE OF THE (3-SUBUNIT -- STUDY ON THE PRIMARY STRUCTURE OF THE ELONGATION FACTOR G FROM E.coli -- INTRACELLULAR SERINE PROTEASES OP BACILLI -- STRUCTURE AND BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF PROTEINASE INHIBITORS FROM YEAST -- INHIBITORS OF HUMAN NEUTRAL GRANULOCYTIC PROTEINASES FROM THE LEECH: BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND PATHOBIOCHEMICAL ASPECTS -- ISOLATION OP A SPECIFIC PROTEIN INHIBITOR OP FUKGAL PROTEINASE AND YEAST PROTEINASE B PROM THE KIDNEY BEAK SEEDS -- ISOLATION OF MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS FROM PARAMYXOVIRUS SV5 FOR ANALYSIS OF THEIR CARBOHYDRATE STRUCTURE -- HAEMOGLOBIN POLYMORPHISM IN CHIRONOMUS (DIPTERA). Primary Structure, Allergenic Determinants and Monomer-Dimer Equilibrium -- H I G H ALTITUDE RESPIRATION OF THE BAR-HEADED GOOSE (ANSER INDICUS) AND THE DIFFERENT EVOLUTION OF THE ?- AND ?-CHAINS IN AVIAN HEMOGLOBINS -- THE STRUCTURE OF THE DICYCLOHEXYLCARBODIIMIDE-BINDING SUBUNIT -- STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF THE ACTIVE ION TRANSPORT SYSTEMS -- ISOLATION OF THE TTX-SENSITIVE PROTEIN(S) OF EXCITABLE TISSUES -- FRAGMENTS FORMED FROM NEUROPEPTIDES UPON ACTION OF HYPOTHALAMIC ENDOPEPTIDASES -- NEW DATA ABOUT THE SPECIFIC PROTEINS OP HYPOTHALAMUS - CARRIERS OP CARDIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS -- ISOLATION AND STRUCTURAL STUDY OP NEUROTOXIN PROM THE VENOM OP SPIDER LATRODECTUS TREDECIMGUTTATUS -- SEA ANEMONE TOXINS; A MINIREVIEW -- STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF MASTOPARAN II - OLIGOPEPTIDE FROM THE VENOM OF HORNET. Vespa orientalis -- ISOLATION, PHYSICO-CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF THE IMMUNITY POLYPEPTIDE BIOREGULATOR FROM THYMUS -- SOME RECENT ADVANCES IN THE METHODS OF PROTEIN SEQUENCE ANALYSIS -- FIELD DESORPTION MASS SPECTROMETRY OF OLIGOPEPTIDES -- SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF MEMBRANE-MODIFYING PEPTIDE ANTIBIOTICS BY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY AND MASS SPECTROMETRY -- STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION AND PROPERTIES OF NIKKOMYCINS, A NEW CLASS OF NUCLEOSIDE - PEPTIDE ANTIBIOTICS -- II. Peptide Syntheses. Biological Activity and Analytical Problems of Synthetic Peptides -- ELECTROCHEMICAL INTRODUCTION AND SELECTIVE REMOVAL OF A NEW TYPE OF AMINO- AND CARBOXY-PROTECTING GROUP FOR PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS -- NEW ASPECTS OF PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS BY FOUR COMPONENT CONDENSATIONS -- ISOCYANIDES AS ACTIVATING REAGENTS IN PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS -- IMPACT OF CONFORMATION ON THE SYNTHETIC STRATEGIES FOR PEPTIDE SEQUENCES -- SYNTHETIC STUDIES OF NEUROTOXIN II FROM VENOM OF CENTRAL ASIAN COBRA. Naja naja ox-Lana -- INVESTIGATION ON THE SYNTHESIS OF SALMON CALCITONIN II FRAGMENTS -- TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF SOMATOSTATIN WITHOUT HYDROXYL GROUP PROTECTION OF HYDROXYL AMINO ACID RESIDUES -- TOTAL SYNTHESIS OF SOMATOSTATIN-28 -- SYNTHESIS, STRUCTURE AND MEMBRANE PROPERTIES OF GRAMICIDIN A DIMER ANALOGS -- CYCLIC ANALOGUES OF BRADYKININ AND KALLIDIN -- INHIBITION OF RNA POLYMERASE BY ANALOGS OF AMANINAMIDE -- STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP OF ACTIN-BINDING PEPTIDES -- SYNTHESIS, SPECTRAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF DSIP AND ITS ANALOGS -- POLYOXYETHYLENEOXIDE(POE) PEPTIDES, MODELS FOR RHODOPSIN AND MYOGLOBIN -- CHEMICAL MUTATION: REPLACEMENT OF REACTIVE SITE RESIDUE P1= LYS IN BOVINE KUNITZ INHIBITOR BY OTHER AMINO ACIDS AND CONCOMITANT SPECIFICITY CHANGE -- ENZYMATIC-CHEMICAL TRANSFORMATION OF PORCINE INSULIN INTO HUMAN INSULIN -- TRYPSIN CATALYZED PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS: MODIFICATION OF THE B-CHAIN C-TERMINAL REGION OF INSULIN -- SEMISYNTHESIS WITH INSULIN-B-CHAIN -- INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF Al, B29 AMINO GROUP MODIFICATION ON THE STRUCTURE AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF INSULIN -- BACTERIAL CELL WALL GLYCOPEPTIDES: SYNTHESIS, CONFORMATION AND ANTITUMOR ACTIVITY -- USE OF DIPEPTIDE SUBSTRATES IN STUDIES OF SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THROMBIN CATALYSIS -- STUDIES ON THE EFFICACY OF PREPARATIVE AND ANALYTICAL HPLC IN PEPTIDE CHEMISTRY -- A Method For Amino Acid Separation Wit