1. You may browse annual specialist periodical reports
"Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins" Vol. 28 and the previous ones.
(Davies, J. S., Ed), Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, U.K., 1997,
which include chapter "Peptides containing alfa-aminoisobutyric acid".
2. All the peptide-related papers (1978-1999) which are not included in
"Medline DB" may be retrieved from Japanese PRF DB at
http://www.prf.or.jp/e-litq.htm
3. You may find useful references in
Humphrey, J. M., Chamberlin, A. R. Chemical synthesis of natural product
peptides: Coupling methods for the incorporation of noncoded amino acids
into peptides. Chem. Rev. 1997, 97(6), 2243-2266
4. (Aib in plants): Durham and Milligan BBRC 1962, 7, 342.
Regards,
Igor
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Igor L. Rodionov
Laboratory of Peptide Chemistry
Branch of Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry
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Pushchino, Moscow Region
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