Molecular Biology of Photosynthesis

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
 Nicotiana chloroplast genes for components of the photosynthetic apparatus....Pages 1-25
Gene organization and newly identified groups of genes of the chloroplast genome from a liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha ....Pages 27-42
Introns in chloroplast protein-coding genes of land plants....Pages 43-59
Pea chloroplast tRNA Lys (UUU) gene: transcription and analysis of an intron-containing gene....Pages 61-76
Transposon mutagenesis of nuclear photosynthetic genes in Zea mays ....Pages 77-103
Using bacteria to analyze sequences involved in chloroplast gene expression....Pages 105-120
Binding, uptake and expression of foreign DNA by cyanobacteria and isolated etioplasts....Pages 121-135
The puf operon region of Rhodobacter sphaeroides ....Pages 137-159
Characterization of phycobiliprotein and linker polypeptide genes in Fremyella diplosiphon and their regulated expression during complementary chromatic adaptation....Pages 161-194
Photoregulation of gene expression in the filamentous cyanobacterium Calothrix sp. PCC 7601: light-harvesting complexes and cell differentiation....Pages 195-228
Regulation of cyanobacterial pigment-protein composition and organization by environmental factors....Pages 229-257
The major light-harvesting complex of Photosystem II: aspects of its molecular and cell biology....Pages 259-281
Regulation and expression of the multigene family coding light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b -binding proteins of photosystem II....Pages 283-319
Reaction centers from three herbicide-resistant mutants of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1: sequence analysis and preliminary characterization....Pages 321-342
Molecular genetics of herbicide resistance in cyanobacteria....Pages 343-352
Genetic analysis of two new mutations resulting in herbicide resistance in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002....Pages 353-369
Nucleotide sequence of the genes encoding cytochrome b-559 from the cyanelle genome of Cyanophora paradoxa ....Pages 371-387
Protein composition of the photosystem II core complex in genetically engineered mutants of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803....Pages 389-405
The Q B site modulates the conformation of the photosystem II reaction center polypeptides....Pages 407-421
Photoregulation of psbA transcript levels in mustard cotyledons....Pages 423-439
The molecular mechanism of the Bicarbonate effect at the Plastoquinone reductase site of Photosynthesis....Pages 441-484
Photosystem I complex....Pages 485-496
Synthesis and assembly of the cytochrome b-f complex in higher plants....Pages 497-516
Genes encoding ferredoxins from Anabaena sp. PCC 7937 and Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942: structure and regulation....Pages 517-542
Structure, organization and expression of cyanobacterial ATP synthase genes....Pages 543-564
The chloroplast genes encoding subunits of the H + -ATP synthase....Pages 565-582
Structural gene regions of Rhodobacter sphaeroides involved in CO 2 fixation....Pages 583-591
Uptake and utilization of inorganic carbon by cyanobacteria....Pages 593-606
Synthesis and assembly of bacterial and higher plant Rubisco subunits in Escherichia coli ....Pages 607-619
Organization and expression of the genes encoding ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase in higher plants....Pages 621-643
Cloning, expression and directed mutagenesis of the genes for ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase....Pages 645-660
The Rubisco subunit binding protein....Pages 661-675
The value of mutants unable to carry out photorespiration....Pages 677-698
Gene expression during CAM induction under salt stress in Mesembryanthemum : cDNA library and increased levels of mRNA for phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and pyruvate orthosphosphate dikinase....Pages 699-711
Transport of proteins into chloroplasts....Pages 713-734
Protein transport towards the thylakoid lumen: post-translational translocation in tandem....Pages 735-744
Recent developments in chloroplast protein transport....Pages 745-776
Protein synthesis by isolated chloroplasts....Pages 777-800
Back Matter....Pages 801-815