Molecular Biology of Membrane-Bound Complexes in Phototrophic Bacteria

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Molecular Genetics Studies of Gene Expression and Protein Structure/Function Relationships in Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 1-4
Physical Mapping of the Genome of Rhodobacter Capsulatus ....Pages 5-10
Preliminary Studies on the Operon Coding for the Reaction Center Polypeptides in Chloroflexus Aurantiacus ....Pages 11-18
Gene Structure, Organisation and Expression of the Light-Harvesting B800-850 α and β Polypeptides in Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 19-31
New Genetic Tools for Rhodobacter capsulatus and Structure and Expression of Genes for Carotenoid Biosynthesis....Pages 33-37
Organization of the Rhodobacter Capsulatus Carotenoid Biosynthesis Gene Cluster....Pages 39-46
The Regulation of Bacteriochlorophyll Synthesis in Rhodobacter Capsulatus ....Pages 47-48
The Cloning and Organisation of Genes for Bacteriochlorophyll and Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides ....Pages 49-56
Structural Analysis of the Rhodobacter capsulatus bchC Bacteriochlorophyll Biosynthesis Gene....Pages 57-64
The puf B,A,L,M Genes are Not Sufficient to Restore the Photosynthetic Plus Phenotype to a puf L,M,X Deletion Strain....Pages 65-76
Regulation of Formation of Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Complexes in Rhodobacter Capsulatus ....Pages 77-84
Genetics of Cytochromes C 2 and BC 1 Complex of Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 85-93
Soluble Cytochrome Synthesis in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides ....Pages 95-104
Post-transcriptional Control of the Expression of Photosynthetic Complex Formation in Rhodobacter sphaeroides ....Pages 105-113
Organization of Genes Encoding Hydrogenase Activity in the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodobacter Capsulatus ....Pages 115-122
Rate-Limiting Endonucleolytic Cleavage of the 2.7 kb puf mRAN of Rhodobacter Capsulatus is Influenced by Oxygen....Pages 123-127
Phycobilisomes of the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus SP. PCC 7002: Structure, Function, Assembly, and Expression....Pages 129-141
Genetic Analysis of the Cyanobacterial Light-Harvesting Antenna Complex....Pages 143-153
Pigment Complexes in Photosynthetic Prokaryotes; Structure and Function....Pages 155-159
Considerations on the Structural Principles of the Antenna Complexes of Phototrophic Bacteria....Pages 161-180
Pigment-Proteins of Antenna Complexes from Purple Non-Sulfur Bacteria: Localization in the Membrane, Alignments of Primary Structure and Structural Predictions....Pages 181-192
Structure of the Antenna Complexes from Purple Bacteria as Seen from Resonance Raman Spectroscopy....Pages 193-198
Multiple Antenna Complexes in Various Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 199-210
The Structure and Function of Some Unusual Variable Antenna Complexes....Pages 211-217
Assembly of Intracytoplasmic Membranes in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides Mutants Lacking Light-Harvesting and Reaction Center Complexes....Pages 219-226
Organization of Chlorophyll and Protein in Chlorosomes....Pages 227-234
Comparison of Structural Subunits of the Core Light-Harvesting Complexes of Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 235-244
Quarternary Structure of the B875 Light-Harvesting Complex from Rhodospirillum Rubrum G9+....Pages 245-251
Studies on the Function of The pufQ Gene Product in Bacteriochlorophyll Biosynthesis....Pages 253-260
The Antenna-Reaction Center Complex of Heliobacteria....Pages 261-267
In Vitro Synthesis and Membrane Assembly of Photosynthetic Polypeptides from Rhodobacter Capsulatus....Pages 269-273
Assembly of Chlorosomes during Photosynthetic Development in Chloroflexus aurantiacus ....Pages 275-284
Carotenoid Absorbance Changes in Liposomes Reconstituted with Pigment-Protein Complexes from Rhodobacter Sphaeroides ....Pages 285-289
Phosphorylation of Membrane Proteins in Control of Excitation Energy Transfer....Pages 291-298
Limited Proteolysis and Its Influence on Thermal Stability of the Photosynthetic Reaction Center from Chloroflexus aurantiacus ....Pages 299-303
Examination of the Rhodobacter Capsulatus Special Pair in Wild-Type and Heterodimer-Containing Reaction Centers by Time-Resolved Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance....Pages 305-312
The Binding and Interaction of Pigments and Quinones in Bacterial Reaction Centers Studied by Infrared Spectroscopy....Pages 313-321
Spectroscopic and Structural Studies of Crystallized Reaction Centres from Wild Type Rhodobacter Sphaeroides Y....Pages 323-328
The Electrogenic Event Associated with the Reduction of the Secondary Quinone Acceptor in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides Reaction Centers....Pages 329-335
Competition between Trapping and Annihilation in Rps. Viridis Probed by Fast Photovoltage Measurements....Pages 337-344
Spectroscopic properties of pigment-protein complexes from photosynthetic purple bacteria in relation to their structure and function....Pages 345-356
Excitation Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Systems: Pigment Oligomerization Effect....Pages 357-364
Excitation Energy Transfer in Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria: Analysis by the Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy....Pages 365-374
Biochemical Evidence For Chromophore-Chromophore Interactions as the Main Organizational Principle in Chlorosomes of Chloroflexus Aurantiacus ....Pages 375-381
Picosecond Energy Transfer Kinetics between Different Pigment Pools in Chlorosomes from the Green Bacterium Chloroflexus Aurantiacus ....Pages 383-387
An Introduction and Overview to the Section on Electrochemical Gradients Across Membranes....Pages 389-392
Light-Induced Electron Transfer and Electrogenic Reactions in the bc Complex of Photosynthetic Purple Bacteria Rhodobacter Sphaeroides....Pages 393-400
The Rhodospirillum Rubrum Cytochrome bc 1 , Complex....Pages 401-414
Nicotinamide Nucleotide Transhydrogenase in Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 415-424
Thermodynamic and Kinetic Features of the Redox Carriers Operating in the Photosynthetic Electron Transport of Chloroflexus Aurantiacus....Pages 425-432
The Functions and Components of the Anaerobic Respiratory Electron Transport Systems in Rhodobacter Capsulatus ....Pages 433-442
Oxygen-Linked Electron Transfer and Energy Conversion in Rhodospirillum Rubrum ....Pages 443-452
Physiology and Genetics of C4-Dicarboxylate Transport in Rhodobacter capsulatus ....Pages 453-462
Sensory Signalling in Rhodobacter Sphaeroides ....Pages 463-472
Molecular Biology of the Rhodobacter Sphaeroides Flagellum....Pages 473-478
The Structure of Porin from Rhodobacter capsulatus at 6 Å....Pages 479-487
Back Matter....Pages 489-491