Green Photosynthetic Bacteria

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-2
Structural Studies on Chlorosomes from Prosthecochloris Aestuarii ....Pages 3-14
Spin Label Studies on Chlorosomes from Green Bacteria....Pages 15-21
Ground-State Molecular Interactions of Bacteriochlorophyll C in Chlorosomes of Green Bacteria and in Model Systems: A Resonance Raman Study....Pages 23-34
Growth Rate and the Control of Development of the Photosynthetic Apparatus in Chloroflexus Aurantiacus as Studied on the Basis of Cytoplasmic Membrane Structure and Chlorosome Size....Pages 35-42
The Bacteriochlorophyll C--Binding Protein from Chlorosomes of Chlorobium Limicola F. Thiosulfrtophilum ....Pages 43-52
Structural Studies on the Antenna Complexes and Polypeptides of Chloroflexus Aurantiacus and Other Green Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 53-55
Energy Trapping and Electron Transfer in Chloroflexus Aurantiacus ....Pages 57-68
Transfer of Excitation Energy in Chloroflexus Auratiacus ....Pages 69-79
Excitation Energy Transfer in Living Cells of the Green Bacterium Chlorobium Limicola Studied by Picosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy....Pages 81-90
Picosecond Energy Transfer Kinetics in Chlorosomes and Bacteriochlorophyll A -Proteins of Chlorobium Limicola ....Pages 91-96
Electron Transfer in the Reaction Center of Green Sulfur Bacteria and Heliobacterium Chlorum ....Pages 97-108
Comparative Study of Spectral and Kinetic Properties of Electron Transfer in Purple and Green Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 109-117
Triplet-Minus-Singlet Optical Difference Spectroscopy of Some Green Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 119-125
Soluble Electron-Transfer Proteins of Chlorobiacere....Pages 127-131
Complex Formation Between Chlorobium F. Thiosulfatophilum C -Type Cytochromes....Pages 133-134
The Mechanism of Photosynthetic Electron Transport and Energy Transduction by Membrane Fragments from Chloroflexus Aurantiacus ....Pages 135-143
Electron Transport Chains of Phototrophically and Chemotrophically Grown Chloroflexus Aurantiacus ....Pages 145-147
A New CO 2 Fixation Mechrnism In Chloroflexus Aurantircus Studied by 13 C-NMR....Pages 149-155
Kinetic and Regulatory Properties of Citrate Synthase from the Thermophilic Green Gliding Bacterium Chloroflexus Aurantiacus ....Pages 157-164
Hyorogenases of Green Bacteria....Pages 165-172
Ammonia Assimulation and Amino Acid Metabolism in Chloroflexus Aurantiacus ....Pages 173-174
Nitrogen Metabolism and N 2 Fixation in Phototrophic Green Bacteria....Pages 175-187
Metabolism of Thiosulfate in Chlorobium ....Pages 189-200
Phylogenetic, Evolutionary, and Taxonomic Aspects of Phototrophic Eubacteria....Pages 201-215
Inferring Eubacterial Phylogeny from SS Ribosomal RNA Structure Analysis....Pages 217-221
Lipids, Fatty Acids and Quinones in Taxonomy And Phylogeny of Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria....Pages 223-232
A New Green Sulfur Bacterium from A Freshwater Pond....Pages 233-235
Preliminary Characterization of a Temperate Marine Member of the Chloroflexaceae....Pages 237-241
The Green Sulfur and Nonsulfur Bacteria of Hot Springs....Pages 243-255
Ecological Niches of Green Sulfur and Gliding Bacteria....Pages 257-267
Diel Migration as a Mechanism for Enrichment of Natural Populations of Branching Species of Pelodictyon ....Pages 269-285
Growth of Chlorobium Limicola F. Thiosulfatophilum on Polysulfides....Pages 287-294
Physiological Aspects of High Sulfide Tolerance in a Photosynthetic Bacterium....Pages 295-303
Differences Between In Situ and In Vitro Redox Conditions Due to the Activity of the Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobium Phaeobocterdides ....Pages 305-310
A Study of Green Photosynthetic Bacteria from a Thermal Sulfur Spring....Pages 311-313
Natural Genetic Transformation in Chlorobium ....Pages 315-319
Back Matter....Pages 321-327