Meet the editor

Jaya T. Varkey, PhD, graduated with a degree in Chemistry from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India. She obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the School of Chemical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota, USA. She is a research guide at Mahatma Gandhi University and Associate Professor in Chemistry, St. Teresa's College, Kochi, Kerala,

India. Dr. Varkey received a National Young Scientist award from the Indian Science Congress (1995), a UGC Research award (2016–2018), an Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Visiting Scientist award (2018–2019), and a Best Innovative Faculty award from the All India Association for Christian Higher Education (AIACHE) (2019). She Hashas received the Sr. Mary Cecil prize for best research paper three times. She was also awarded a start-up to develop a tea bag water filter. Dr. Varkey has published two international books and twenty-seven international journal publications. She is an editorial board member for five international journals.

Contents

*by Jaya T. Varkey*

*and Zeynep Mustafaeva*

Peptide Preparation *by Yoshio Hamada*

*by Silpa Somavarapu*

*by Ali Nabipour Chakoli*

Introductory Chapter: Peptide Synthesis

and Immobilized on Material Surfaces

Poly(L-Lactide) Bionanocomposites

Synthesis and Applications of Synthetic Peptides

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 31**

**Chapter 4 43**

**Chapter 5 65**

**Chapter 6 81**

Determination of Substrate Specificity of the Purified Novel Plant Cysteine

*by Burcu Ucar, Tayfun Acar, Pelin Pelit Arayici, Melis Sen, Serap Derman* 

Isoacylpeptide Method for Long-Chain and Difficult Sequence-Containing

Defensin-Like Peptides and Their Antimicrobial Activity in Free-Form

*by Marc Bruggeman, Hanieh Ijakipour and Artemis Stamboulis*

Protease Solanain From the Latex of *Vallaris solanacea*
