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NMR-Based Strategies to Elucidate Bioactive Conformations of Weakly Binding Ligands.- Quantitative Analysis of STD-NMR Spectra of Reversibly Forming Ligand-Receptor Complexes.- Structural and Functional Studies of Peptide-Carbohydrate Mimicry.- Studies on the Conformational Features of Neomycin-B and its Molecular Recognition by RNA and Bacterial Defense Proteins.- Solid State NMR Structure Analysis of the Antimicrobial Peptide Gramicidin S in Lipid Membranes: Concentration-Dependent Re-alignment and Self-Assembly as a ?-Barrel.- Modulation of the Bioactive Conformation of Transforming Growth Factor ?: Possible Implications of Cation Binding for Biological Function.- Molecular Recognition of Ligands by Native Viruses and Virus-Like Particles as Studied by NMR Experiments.- Investigation of Proteins in Living Bacteria with In-Cell NMR Experiments.