Part I: Selection

1. Selection of Aptamers for Metabolite Sensing and Construction of Optical Nanosensors

Yi Long, Franziska Pfeiffer, Günter Mayer, Tine Daa Schrøder, Veli Cengiz Özalp, and Lars Folke Olsen

2. SELEX of Cell-Specific RNA Aptamers

Katharina Berg, Eileen Magbanua, and Ulrich Hahn

3. Developing Aptamers by Cell-Based SELEX

Silvia Catuogno, Carla Lucia Esposito, and Vittorio de Franciscis

4. DNA Aptamer Generation by Genetic Alphabet Expansion SELEX (ExSELEX) Using an Unnatural Base Pair System

Michiko Kimoto, Ken-Ichiro Matsunaga, and Ichiro Hirao

5. Capillary Electrophoresis for the Selection of DNA Aptamers Recognizing Activated Protein C

Nasim Shahidi Hamedani and Jens Müller

6. Preparation of SELEX Samples for Next-Generation Sequencing

Fabian Tolle and Günter Mayer

7. Next Generation Analysis of Deep Sequencing Data: Bringing Light into the Black Box of SELEX Experiments

Michael Blank

Part II: Characterization

8. Aptamer Binding Studies Using MicroScale Thermophoresis

Dennis Breitsprecher, Nina Schlinck, David Witte, Stefan Duhr, Philipp Baaske, and Thomas Schubert

9. Label-Free Determination of the Dissociation Constant of Small Molecule-Aptamer Interaction by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry

Marc Vogel and Beatrix Suess

10. Applications of Aptamers in Flow and Imaging Cytometry

Isis C. Nascimento, Arthur A. Nery, Vinicius Bassaneze, José E. Krieger, and Henning Ulrich

11. In Vitro and In Vivo Imaging of Fluorescent Aptamers

Ioanna Théodorou, Nam Nguyen Quang, Karine Gombert, Benoit Thézé, Benoit Lelandais, and Frédéric Ducongé

12. Crystallographic Pursuit of a Protein-RNA Aptamer Complex

John J.G. Tesmer

Part III: Application

13. Voltammetric Aptasensor Based on Magnetic Beads Assay for Detection of Human Activated Protein C

Arzum Erdem, Gulsah Congur, and Ece Eksin

14. Apta-PCR

Alessandro Pinto, Pedro Nadal Polo, Marketa Svobodova, Teresa Mairal Lerga, and Ciara K. O'Sullivan

15. Aptamer-Based Enzyme-Capture-Assay for Measurement of Plasma Thrombin Levels

Jens Müller, Tobias Becher, Günter Mayer, and Bernd Pötzsch

16. Application of Aptamers in Histopathology

Sarah Shigdar, Li Lv, Lifen Wang, and Wei Duan

17. Aptamer Stainings for Super-Resolution Microscopy

Maria Angela Gomes de Castro, Burkhard Rammner, and Felipe Opazo

18. Synthesis and Characterization of Aptamer Targeted SNALPs for the Delivery of siRNA

Samantha E. Wilner and Matthew Levy

19. Screening of Genetic Switches Based on the Twister Ribozyme Motif

Michele Felletti, Benedikt Klauser, and Jörg S. Hartig