Synthesis of tools for raising antibodies against moenomycin epitopes and initial immunological studies

Towards the design of host–guest complexes: biotin and urea derivatives versus artificial receptors

Molecular mechanics calculations (Macromodel v.5.0 and v.8.1) have been used in order to correlate the minimized energies of the complexes with the binding constant Kb values measured on two hosts and five urea derivatives including methyl biotin. Kb values obtained by means of NMR titrations, in the right concentration range between 20 and 80% of saturation, correlate well with the energies provided by the molecular modeling study of the complexes.

A survey of the year 2002 commercial optical biosensor literature

We have compiled 819 articles published in the year 2002 that involved commercial optical biosensor technology. The literature demonstrates that the technology's application continues to increase as biosensors are contributing to diverse scientific fields and are used to examine interactions ranging in size from small molecules to whole cells. Also, the variety of available commercial biosensor platforms is increasing and the expertise of users is improving. In this review, we use the literature to focus on the basic types of biosensor experiments, including kinetics, equilibrium analysis, solution competition, active concentration determination and screening. In addition, using examples of particularly well-performed analyses, we illustrate the high information content available in the primary response data and emphasize the impact of including figures in publications to support the results of biosensor analyses.