Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects: Volume I Proceedings of the XIth International Congress on Photosynthesis, Budapest, Hungary, August 17–22, 1998

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Structure Determination of Antenna Complexes Using Two-Dimensional Femtosecond Electronic Spectroscopies....Pages 3-8
Ultrafast Energy Transfer from Rhodopin Glucoside in the Light Harvesting Complexes of RPS. Acidophila .....Pages 9-14
Exciton Delocalization in Antenna Complexes.....Pages 15-20
Exciton Relaxation and Transfer in the Antenna Network of Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 21-24
Which Mechanism of Excitation Transfer Works in Antenna Systems of Photosynthetic Bacteria Among Förster, Hot Transfer, Superexchange and Exciton?....Pages 25-28
Exciton Delocalization in Antenna Complexes of Purple and Green Bacteria as Revealed by Femtosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy....Pages 29-32
Red Emission From LH2 at Low Temperature: Where Does it Come From?....Pages 33-36
Ultrafast Carotenoid Band Shifts Probe Structure and Dynamics in Photosynthesis.....Pages 37-40
Dielectric Relaxation on a Picosecond Time-scale at 77K; a time-resolved Stark fluorescence study on the LH2 B800-820 complex of Rps. acidophila ....Pages 41-44
Polarized and Colored Photon Echo Measurements on the LH2 Antenna of RPS. Acidophila and RS. Mouschianum ....Pages 45-48
Low-Intensity Pump-Probe Measurements on the B800 Band of Rhodospirillum Molischianum ....Pages 49-52
Energy Relaxation Within the B850 Absorption Band of the LH2 Complex from Rhodopseudomanas Acidophila at 7 K....Pages 53-56
Characterization of Bchl A’s in B873, B820 and B777 of Light-Harvesting Complex 1 (LH1) From Rhodospirillum Rubrum by Magnetic Circular Dichroism Budapest, Hungary, 17–22 August 1998....Pages 57-60
Spectral and Photochemical Properties of Light-Harvesting-Complex II of Purple Bacteria Treated with Sodium Borohydride....Pages 61-64
Up-Hill Energy Transfer in LH1+LH2 Purple Bacteria....Pages 65-68
Structural Origin of High-800 Peripheral Antenna Complexes....Pages 69-72
Altered Bacteriochlorophyll Associations in Combinatorial Mutants of the Rhodobacter Capsulatus Light Harvesting 2 Complex....Pages 73-76
A Study of the Energetic Properties of LH2 Complexes From Rps. Acidophila 10050 Containing Modified (Bacterio) Chlorin Molecules....Pages 77-80
Pigment Exchange Strategy Towards the Investigations of Energy Transfer in Bacterial LH1 Complex....Pages 81-84
Structure and Function Studies of the LH1 (B880) Antenna Complex of the Purple Bacterium Rhodobium marinum ....Pages 85-88
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Size of the LH1 Antenna of Purple Bacteria....Pages 89-92
Molecular Assembly of Bachteriochlorophylls by Light-Harvesting Model Polypeptides....Pages 93-96
Generation of Triplet and Cation-Radical Bacteriochlorophyll a in Carotenoidless LH1 and LH2 Complexes From Rhodobacter Sphaeroides ....Pages 97-100
Structure and Function of Chlorosomes of Chlorobium Limicola UdG 6040 Containing Both BChl c and BChl d ....Pages 101-104
Selective extraction of proteins from Chlorobium tepidum chlorosomes....Pages 105-108
Electron Magnetic Resonance of the Chlorosomes from Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobium Tepidum ....Pages 109-112
Stacking of Macrocycles in Bacteriochlorophyll c Aggregates and in Chlorosomes....Pages 113-116
Evidence from Solid State NMR Correlation Spectroscopy for two Interstack Arrangements in the Chlorosome Antenna System....Pages 117-120
Polarized Light Spectroscopy of the Green Bacteria....Pages 121-124
Low Temperature Fluorescence Spectroscopy Studies of the Chlorosomal Antenna of the Green Bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus ....Pages 125-128
Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy as a Test for the Chlorosome Antenna Structure....Pages 129-132
Self-Assembly of Synthetic Zinc Chlorins in Aqueous Microheterogeneous Media: Structural and Functional Models for Chlorosomes....Pages 133-136
Effects of Homologs for Aggregation of Bacteriochlorophyll c and Bacteriochlorophyll d in Chlorosomes of Green Sulfur Bacteria....Pages 137-140
Self-Aggregates of Synthetic Zinc 20-Substituted Chlorins as Models for Chlorosomal Photosynthetic Antennae....Pages 141-144
Self-Aggregates of Synthetic Bacteriochlorophyll-F Derivatives....Pages 145-148
The Role of Bacteriochlorophyll e and Carotenoids in Light Harvesting in Brown-Colored Green Sulfur Bacteria....Pages 149-152
Redox- and Pump Intensity Dependence of Energy Transfer in Chlorosomes of Cb. Phaeobacteroides ....Pages 153-156
Quenching of Energy Transfer in Chlorosomes from Chloroflexus by the Addition of Synthetic Quinones....Pages 157-160
Alkali Treatment of Green Bacterial Chlorosomes....Pages 161-164
Adaptation of the Photosynthetic Antenna of BChl d -Containing Bacteria to Low Light Intensities....Pages 165-168
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Effects of Growth Condition Changes on the Photosynthetic Pigment Systems for Green Sulfur Bacteria. A Study on the Constituent of the Photosynthetic Pigment in Chlorosome....Pages 169-172
Changes in the Antenna Composition of Chlorobium Limicola Growing in Continuous Culture....Pages 173-176
Light-Dependent Morphological and Physiological Changes in Prosthecochloris Aestuarii ....Pages 177-180
Low Temperature Excitation Transfer in the FMO Complex. Simulations.....Pages 181-184
Accumulated Photon Echo Studies on 3FMO-RCC and RCC from Prosthecochloris Aestuarii ....Pages 185-188
Time-Resolved Spectra of the FMO-Complex of Green Sulfur Bacteria: Simulations and Experiments....Pages 189-192
Functional Meaning of the Symmetry Structure in Phycobiliprotein Aggregates....Pages 193-196
Energetic Uncoupling and Dissociation of Cyanobacterial Antenna by Low Phosphate Concentration or Low Temperature....Pages 197-200
Coupling of Phycobilisomes to Reaction Centres in Cyanobacteria....Pages 201-204
Molecular Analysis of Factors Involved in Energy Transfer from Phycobilisomes to Photosystems I and II in a Cyanobacterium....Pages 205-208
The State Transitions and their Possible Mechanisms of Sporophytes and Gametophytes of Porphyra Yezoensis ....Pages 209-212
State Transitions in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7942. Mobile Antenna or Spillover?....Pages 213-216
The Structure of the Biliprotein Aggregates of the CHL D -Containing Prokaryote Acaryochloris Marina ....Pages 217-220
Localization and Function of Phycobiliproteins in a Chlorophyll A/D Containing Oxygenic Photosynthetic Prokaryote, Acaryochloris Marina ....Pages 221-224
Characterization of Phycoerythrin Genes in the Chlorophyll A 2 / B 2 -Containing Prokaryote, Prochlorococcus SP. MIT9303....Pages 225-228
 Gloeobacter Violaceus — Investigation of Carotenoids and Carotenoid Associated Proteins....Pages 229-232
 Gloeobacter Violaceus — Further Investigation of an Unusual Photosynthetic Apparatus Pigment Changes in Response to Changes in Light Quality....Pages 233-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Relatedness of Caroteno-Chlorophyll Antenna Complexes in Algae and Plants....Pages 239-246
Solutions to the Light-Harvesting Problem: Mix, Match and Duplicate....Pages 247-252
Mutation analysis of either protein or chromophore moieties in Higher Plants Light Harvesting Proteins....Pages 253-258
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Spectroscopic Characterization of Reconstituted LHCII Which Contains Mainly CHL B and Xanthophylls.....Pages 259-264
Carotenoid-Induced Electronic Relaxation of the First Excited State of Antenna Chlorophylls....Pages 265-270
Photosystem I Red Spectral Forms: Diffusion Limited Energy Transfer, Optical Reorganisation Energy and Absorption Cross Section.....Pages 271-276
Ultrafast Absorption Changes of the LHCII Carotenoids Upon Selective Excitation of the Chlorophylls....Pages 277-280
Excited State Mixing Effects in Transient Absorption Spectra of the Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Complex II.....Pages 281-284
Functional and Spectral Assignment of Chlorophylls in the Light Harvesting Complex II of Higher Plants....Pages 285-288
Studies on the PSII Particles and Core Complexes Using Femtosecond Absorption Spectroscopy....Pages 289-292
Direct Resolution of Spectral Fine-Structure and Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics in Light Harvesting Complex II by Nonlinear Polarization Spectroscopy in the Frequency Domain....Pages 293-296
Topographical Studies on the LHC II from Spinach by Chemical Crosslinking....Pages 297-300
Structural Characterization of Megacomplexes of Photosystem II and LHCII Of Grana Membranes....Pages 301-304
Refined Analysis of Supercomplexes of Photosystem II and LHCII of Grana Membranes from Spinach....Pages 305-308
Light Gradient Photovoltage in Spherical Photosynthetic Vesicles.....Pages 309-312
Spectral Analysis of LHC II Antenna Complex by Means of Photobleaching....Pages 313-316
Circular Polarization of Luminescence Correlates with Circular Dichroism at Varied Structural Organization of Grana in Pea Chloroplasts....Pages 317-320
Electro-Optical Investigation of LHC II Macroaggregates....Pages 321-324
Thermal Stability and Conformational Properties of Lamellar Macroaggregates of LHC II....Pages 325-328
Mg 2+ -Induced LHC II Aggregation Kinetics and its Migration in Thylakoid Membrane....Pages 329-332
Zeaxanthin-induced fluorescence quenching in the minor antenna CP29....Pages 333-336
Reversible Light-Induced Fluorescence Quenching — an Inherent Property of LHCII....Pages 337-340
Light-Induced Ion Movements in Thylakoid Membranes and Isolated LHCII....Pages 341-344
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Model Calculations on the Mechanism of the Light-Induced Structural Changes in Lamellar Aggregates of LHCII....Pages 345-348
Nature of Irreversible Structural Changes Induced by Intense Light in Thylakoids. Small Angle X-ray and Neutron Scattering of Magnetically Aligned Chloroplasts....Pages 349-352
Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Xanthophyll-rich Pigment-protein complex from Spinach.....Pages 353-356
Crystallization of Light-Harvesting Complex II from Vicia Faba (Fabaceae)....Pages 357-360
Chlorophyll exchange on reconstituted LHCII: Chlorophyll a is essential for Trimerisation....Pages 361-364
Kinetic Studies of the Assembly of Plant Light Harvesting Complex II.....Pages 365-368
Identification and role of the lipid binding site on light-harvesting complex II....Pages 369-372
Characterization of Photosystem II Antenna Complexes Separated by Non-Denaturing Isoelectric Focusing....Pages 373-376
Domain-specific Random Mutagenesis in Light Harvesting Chlorophyll a/b Protein (LHCII).....Pages 377-380
Cloning and Characterization of a cDNA for Algal Homologue of CP26 in the Light-Harvesting Complex II of Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii ....Pages 381-384
A Complex Gene Encoding a Dinoflagellate Light-Harvesting Protein....Pages 385-388
Non-Structural Putative Chlorophyll-Binding Proteins of Arabidopsis thaliana ....Pages 389-392
Light-Induced Quenching of Chlorophyll Fluorescence at 77 K in Thylakoids and Whole Leaves....Pages 393-396
Membrane Protein Phosphorylation Leads to the Structural Alterations in Maize Mesophyll Chloroplasts....Pages 397-400
Differences in Characteristics of Photosystem I and II Complexes from Various Regions of Thylakoid Membranes....Pages 401-404
Energy Equilibration in the Antenna of Photosystem I From Cyanobacterium Synechocystis SP. PCC 6803.....Pages 405-408
Spectral Properties of Long-Wavelength Chlorophylls in Barley Photosystem I Depend on Intimate Interaction Between LHCA1, LHCA4 and the Reaction Centre....Pages 409-412
 In Vitro Reconstitution of Barley LHCA1 and LHCA4, the Proteins of Photosystem I Antenna Subcomplex LHCI-730....Pages 413-416
Long Wavelength Absorption Forms in Spirulina PSI Trimers.....Pages 417-420
The Light-Harvesting Complex of Photosystem I: Pigment Composition and Stoichiometry....Pages 421-424
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Ligand requirement for LHC I reconstitution....Pages 425-428
Accumulation of Lhci in Picea and Maize Seedlings Greened Under Different Conditions....Pages 429-432
Spectral Changes of Chlorophyll Fluorescence During Linear Heating of Barley Leaves....Pages 433-436
Heterogeneity of Chlorophyll D -Binding Photosystem I Reaction Centers from the Photosynthetic Prokaryote Acaryochloris Marina ....Pages 437-440
Peridinin Chlorophyll Protein: Structure and Dynamics Related....Pages 441-444
Low-Temperature Protein Dynamics in Purple Bacteria and Green Plants Studied by Time-Resolved Hole-Burning.....Pages 445-448
Förster Overlap Integral for Chlorophyll a in a Protein Matrix.....Pages 449-452
MAS NMR Dipolar Correlation Spectroscopy of Partially Deuterated 13 C- Labelled Chlorophyll a ....Pages 453-456
Characterisation of Chlorophyll A and Chlorophyll B Monomers in Various Solvent Environments With Ultrafast Spectroscopy....Pages 457-460
Interaction of Photosynthetic Pigments with Various Organic Solvents as Revealed from Magnetic Circular Dichroism Measurements....Pages 461-464
Molecular Requirements of Chlorophylls for the Antenna Function of their Self-Assembled Forms....Pages 465-468
Determination of the Aggregate Size in Chlorophyll a Oligomers by Non-Linear Absorption Spectroscopy on the ps and fs Timescale....Pages 469-472
The Effect of Solvent on the Lifetime of the Lowest Excited Singlet S 1 (2 1 A g ) State of Spheroidene....Pages 473-476
Quenching of Chlorophyl Fluorescence by Carotenoids in a Micellar Model System....Pages 477-482
Quenching of Chlorophyll a Fluorescence by β-Carotene....Pages 483-486
Light-Harvesting and Photoprotection by Carotenoids: Structure-Based Calculations for Photosynthetic Antenna Systems....Pages 487-490
Triplet-Triplet Absorption Spectra and Extinction Coefficients of Lutein, Neoxanthin and Violaxanthin....Pages 491-494
Front Matter....Pages 495-495
Structure-Function Relationships and Excitation Dynamics in Photosystem I....Pages 497-502
Transfer-to-the-Trap Limited Model of Energy Transfer in Photosystem 1....Pages 503-508
Structural Information on Components of the Electron Transfer Chain in Photosystem I From Time-Resolved EPR Spectroscopy....Pages 509-514
Front Matter....Pages 495-495
Mutational Analysis of Photosystem I Function of Phylloquinones....Pages 515-520
New Types of Reaction Centers Using Chlorophyll d and Zn-Bacteriochlorophyll a ....Pages 521-526
Reaction Centre Complexes of Green Sulfur Bacteria....Pages 527-530
Evidence for the association of three FMO subunits per reaction center of Chlorobium Tepidum by scanning transmission electron microscopy....Pages 531-534
Excitation Energy Transfer and Trapping Dynamics in the FMO Containing Reaction Center Complex of Chlorobium Tepidum ....Pages 535-538
Relaxation and Trapping in Reaction Centers of the Green Sulfur Bacterium Prosthecochloris Aestuarii ....Pages 539-542
Electron Transfer in Reaction Centers From Green Sulfur Bacteria....Pages 543-546
Forward Electron Transfer in Chlorobium Reaction Centres Studied by Transient EPR....Pages 547-550
A Comparison of the Quinone Binding Sites in Photosystem I and Purple Bacteria....Pages 551-554
Occurrence and Function of Quinones in the Reaction Center of Chlorobium Tepidum ....Pages 555-558
Studies of the Protein Binding Pocket for Naphthoquinones in Type I (Ferredoxin-Reducing) Reaction Centres.....Pages 559-562
Activities and Kinetics of Electron Transfer in a Reaction Center Complex From the Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobium Tepidum ....Pages 563-566
Excitation Energy Transfer and Trapping in PS I: Fluorescence Induction and Picosecond Fluorescence Kinetics....Pages 567-570
Time-Resolved Fluorescence Measurements of Photosystem 1 From Synechocystis PCC 6803....Pages 571-574
Excitation Wavelength Dependence of the Excitation Transfer in Photosystem I Reaction Center With Reduced Number of Antenna Chlorophylls....Pages 575-578
Oligomeric Assembly and Biogenesis of Cyanobacterial Photosystem I.....Pages 579-582
Origin of the Extreme Longwave Chlorophyll Form of the Photosystem I Trimeric Complex of Spirulina ....Pages 583-586
Fluorescence Kinetics of Photosystem I: Multiple Fluorescence Components....Pages 587-590
A Survey of Conserved Histidines in the Photosystem 1 Core: Methodology and Analysis of the PSAB-H656L Mutant....Pages 591-594
Effect of PsaB-HIS656→Leu Mutation on Optical and Infrared Difference Spectra of P700 Photooxidation....Pages 595-598
Front Matter....Pages 495-495
Molecular Dissection of Photosystem I by Atomic Force Microscopy....Pages 599-602
New Structural Details of Photosystem I at 4 Å Resolution....Pages 603-606
Electron Transfer From Acceptor A 1 to the Iron-Sulfur Clusters in Photosystem I Measured with a Time Resolution of 2 NS....Pages 607-610
Photosystem I Function and Assembly in Tobacco Chloroplast Mutants....Pages 611-614
Characterization of Photosystem I Reaction Center Complex Reconstituted into Phosphatidylcholine Liposomes; Effect of Proteolytic Enzymes on the Reaction Center Proteins....Pages 615-618
P700 is Present in a Photoactive State in a White Mutant of Chlorella Kessleri ....Pages 619-622
Characterisation of Transgenic Arabidopsis Plants Lacking the PSI-N Subunit of Photosystem I....Pages 623-626
The Functional Antennae Size of the Photosystem I Complex is Unaffected in Transgenic Arabidopsis Lacking PSI-H.....Pages 627-630
Overexpression and Down Regulation of PSI-G and PSI-E in Transgenic Barley ( Hordeum Vulgare L. )....Pages 631-634
The Formylamino Group of Antimycin is Essential in Specifically Inhibiting Cyclic Electron Transport.....Pages 635-638
Site Directed and Suppressor Mutations of F x Ligands in PsaB of Photosystem I in Synechocystis SP PCC 6803....Pages 639-642
Mutations in the Phylloquinone Biosynthetic Pathway: a Foreign Quinone is Recruited into the A 1 Binding Site after Inactivation of the menA and menB Genes in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803....Pages 643-646
Electron Transfer From the Psac F A /F B -Clusters to External Acceptors Studied by Electrometry....Pages 647-650
Electron Transfer and Redox Equilibrium Between the Iron-Sulfur Clusters in PS I: F B is the Terminal Acceptor....Pages 651-654
Chemical Rescue of Site-Modified Ligands to the Iron-Sulfur Clusters of PsaC in Photosystem I....Pages 655-658
Charge Recombination Between the Reduced Iron-Sulphur Clusters and P700 + ....Pages 659-662
Effect of Pyrophosphate on the Ferredoxin: NADP + Oxidoreductase Activity in vitro. ....Pages 663-666
Back Matter....Pages 667-670
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