| Acm | Acetamidomethyl |
| AcOH | Acetic acid |
| Arg | Arginine |
| Asp | Aspartic acid |
| BPTI | Bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor |
| CASP | critical assessment of protein structure prediction |
| COSY | Correlated spectroscopy |
| Cys | Cysteine |
| 2,5-DHAP | 2,5-Dihydroxyacetophenone |
| DMF | Dimethylformamide |
| ESI | Electrospray ionization |
| Fmoc | Fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl |
| FXIII | Blood coagulation factor XIII |
| FXIIIa | Activated blood coagulation factor XIII |
| Glu | Glutamic acid |
| HBTU | 2-(1H-Benzotriazol-1-yl)-1,1,3,3-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate |
| HSQC | Heteronuclear single quantum coherence |
| His | Histidine |
| Ile | Isoleucine |
| Lys | Lysine |
| MALDI | Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization |
| MD | Molecular dynamics |
| MS | Mass spectrometry |
| MS/MS | Tandem mass spectrometry |
| NMR | Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| NOESY | Nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy |
| NPT | constant number of atoms, pressure, temperature |
| NSGM | Non-saccharide glucosaminoglycan mimetics |
| NVT | constant number of atoms, volume, temperature |
| Phe | Phenylalanine |
| Pro | Proline |
| RMSD | Root mean square deviation |
| RP-HPLC | Reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography |
| Ser | Serine |
| SPPS | Solid phase peptide synthesis |
| TFA | Trifluoroacetic acid |
| TOCSY | Total correlation spectroscopy |
| Trt | Trityl |
| Trp | Tryptophane |
| Tyr | Tyrosine |
| VMD | Visual molecular dynamics |