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In Preparation: Tentative title, subject to change
June 27 , 2006
The Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria:
Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics
C. Neil Hunter, University of Sheffield, UK
Marion C. Thurnauer, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
J. Thomas Beatty, Univeristy of British Columbia, Canada
[Series Editor: GOVINDJEE (gov@uiuc.edu)]
The Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria. This book reviews recent advances in research on the ecology, physiology, metabolism and biophysics of these fascinating bacteria. The purple photosynthetic bacteria are among the most metabolically versatile organisms on Earth, and consequently they are extremely widely distributed in the biosphere. Studies of their photosynthetic reactions have played a seminal role in the development of photosynthetic research in both bacteria and plants, across the disciplines of genetics, spectroscopy, and structural biology. Research on these fascinating bacteria is expanding, finding new applications ranging from nanotechnology to photodynamic therapy. This book is a compilation of 49 authoritative chapters, written by leading experts who highlight the huge progress made in spectroscopic, structural and genetic studies of these bacteria since 1995, when the last such book was published. This new volume is similarly intended to be the definitive text on these bacteria for many years to come, and it will be a valuable resource for experienced researchers, as well as, graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the fields of ecology, microbiology, biochemistry and biophysics. Scientists interested in future applications of these bacteria which could harness their potential for nanotechnology, solar energy conversion, bioremediation, or biotechnology, will also find the book useful.
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Contents
Editorial
Contents
Preface
Author Index
Color Plates
Part I: Physiology and Ecology
1. Nonsulphur bacteria and extreme habitats
Michael Madigan
2. Envirogenomics/metagenomics of purple phototrophic bacteria
Oded Béjá and David Kirschman
3. Physiology and Ecology of Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs
Vladimir Yurkov
Part II: Molecular structure and biosynthesis of pigments andcofactors
4. Biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophylls (purples)
Robert Willows
5. Biosynthesis of vitamin B12
Martin Warren
6. Biosynthesis of carotenoids
Shinichi Takaichi
7. Lipids
Christoph Benning
Part III: Antenna Structure and Function
8. Peripheral complexes of purple bacteria
Richard J. Cogdell
9. Core complexes of purple bacteria
Per A. Bullough and C.Neil Hunter
10. Organisation of light harvesting complexes in the purple bacterial membrane
James Sturgis and Robert A. Niederman
11. Spectroscopy and dynamics of excitation transfer and trapping in purple bacteria
Rienk van Grondelle
12. Spectroscopy and structure of bacterial antenna complexes
Bruno Robert
13. Energy transfer from carotenoids to bacteriochlorophylls
Harry Frank and Tomas Polivka
14. Structure-function relationships investigated by reconstitution techniques
Paul Loach and Pamela Parkes-Loach
15. Modelling the behaviour of the bacterial photosynthetic unit
Melih Sener and Klaus Schulten
Part IV: Reaction Center Structure and Function
16. Structural plasticity of reaction centers from purple bacteria
Michael R. Jones
17. Reaction center-cytochrome interactions
Melvin Okamura
18. Directed modification of purple bacterial reaction centers – redox and H-bonding properties of the pigments; directionality of electron transfer
James P. Allen and JoAnn C. Williams
19. Mechanism of charge separation in purple bacterial reaction centers
William Parson
20. Proton coupled electron transfer reactions in purple bacterial reaction centres
Marilyn Gunner and Colin Wraight
21. Structural alterations upon reaction centre photochemistry
Jacques Breton
Part V: Cyclic electron transfer components and energy coupling reactions
22. Biogenesis of cytochromes and the cytochrome complexes
Fevzi Daldal, Robert Kranz and Georg Koch
23. Structural and mutational studies of cytochrome bc1 complexes
Edward Berry and Fevzi Daldal
24. Mechanistic aspects of the cytochrome bc1 complex
David Kramer and Jason Cooley
25. The proton translocating FoF1 ATPase
Boris Feniouk and Wolfgang Junge
26. The proton translocating transhydrogenase
J. Baz Jackson
27. Functional coupling between reaction centre and bc1 complexes
Andre Vermeglio, Jerome Lavergne and Pierre Joliot
Part VI: Metabolic Processes
28. Respiration and respiratory complexes
Davide Zannoni and Jon Hosler
29. Carbon metabolism and CO2 fixation
Robert Tabita
30. Degradation of aromatic compounds by non sulphur purple bacteria
Caroline Harwood
31. Sulphur metabolism
Christiane Dahl
32. Nitrogen fixation and denitrification
James Shapleigh
33. Flagellate motility and behavioural response
Judith Armitage
34. Metal detoxification/xenobiotic treatment
Davide Zannoni and Francesca Borsetti
Part VII: Genomics, proteomics and molecular genetics
35. Purple bacterial genomics
Timothy Donohue and Samuel Kaplan
36. Regulatory networks in Rhodobacter
Mark Gomelsky
37. Regulation of genes by oxygen
Carl Bauer
38. Regulation of genes by light
Gabrielle Klug and Shinji Masuda
39. Regulation of hydrogenase
Paullette Vignais
40. Regulation of nitrogenase
Robert Kranz and Bernd Masepohl
41. Ultrafast spectroscopy of regulatory proteins and of the photoactive yellow protein
John Kennis and Klaas Hellingwerf
42. Regulation of the tetrapyrrole biosynthetic pathway
Jill Zeilstra-Ryalls
Part VIII: New applications and techniques
43. Heterologous expression of genes in photosynthetic bacteria
Philip D. Laible and Deborah K. Hanson
44. Assembly of bacterial light harvesting complexes on gold electrodes
Mamoru Nango
45. Optical spectroscopy on single light harvesting complexes
Juergen Kohler
46. Design of water soluble bacteriochlorophyll-binding proteins
Wolfgang Haehnel, Dror Noy and Hugo Scheer
47. Design and assembly of functional bacteriochlorophyll-protein arrays in membranes
Paula Braun and Leszek Fiedor
48. AFM imaging of bacterial photosynthetic complexes
Simon Scheuring
49. Bacteriochlorophyll derivatives for photodynamic cancer therapy
Avigdor Scherz
Index
Springer,
2006, xxix+8 Color Plates+669 pp
Volume 27 in
the series: Advances
in Photosynthesis, Govindjee, series editor.
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