Photosynthesis: Molecular Biology and Bioenergetics

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Genes of the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Higher Plants—Structure, Expression and Strategies for Their Engineering....Pages 3-20
Specific Mutagenesis as a Tool for the Analysis of Structure/Function Relationships in Photosystem II....Pages 21-35
Replication of Chloroplast DNA: Replication Origins, Topoisomerase I, and In Vitro Replication....Pages 37-52
Molecular Genetics of Herbicide Resistance in Cyanobacteria....Pages 53-61
Molecular Analysis of a Gene ( irp A) Encoding a Function Essential for Iron-limited Growth in the Cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans R2....Pages 63-76
Primary Structure and Expression in Escherichia coli of the Mn-stabilising Protein Involved in Photosystem II Water Oxidation....Pages 77-84
Further Characterisation of the Isolated PS2 Reaction Centre....Pages 85-101
Use of Synthetic Peptides in Studies on the Biogenesis and Phosphorylation of Photosystem II Proteins....Pages 103-115
Functional Role for 33KDa Proteins in the Oxygen Evolution Complex (OEC)....Pages 117-134
Heat-shock Proteins Associated with Chloroplasts....Pages 135-141
The Role of Chloride in Oxygen Evolution....Pages 143-161
Isolation of a Highly Active PS II Preparation from Wheat Triticum Aestivum and the Chemical Modification of Tyrosine Residues with 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan (NBD-C1)....Pages 163-174
Phosphorylation of Photosystem Two Reaction Centre Polypeptides....Pages 175-188
Trafficking and Distribution of the Photosynthetic Reaction Centre Proteins in the Chloroplast Membranes....Pages 189-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Linear-dichroic Triplet-minus-Singlet Absorbance Difference Spectra of Borohydride-treated Reaction Centres of Rhodobacter sphaeroides R26 ....Pages 197-204
Ca ++ Gating of Proton Fluxes in Thylakoid Membranes: Regulation of Localised and Delocalised Energy Coupled Proton Gradients....Pages 205-224
Plastoquinone Diffusion in Proteoliposomes Studied by Pyrene Fluorescence Quenching....Pages 225-237
The Involvement of Sulphydryl Group of Coupling Factor 1 (CF 1 ) in Energy Transduction in Chloroplast....Pages 239-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
The Bioenergetics of Stress Responses in Cyanobacteria....Pages 249-257
CAM Induction in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum: Protein Expression....Pages 259-268
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Sensitivity to Far-uv Light as a Parameter for the Study of in vivo Regulation of Development of PSII Particles in Cyanobacteria: An Analytical Model....Pages 269-281
Effects of Light Chilling on Photophosphorylation in Cucumber....Pages 283-295
Effect of Heat Stress on Photosynthesis and Respiration in a Wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) Mutant....Pages 297-303
Inhibition of Energy Transfer Reactions in Cyanobacteria by Different Ultraviolet Radiation....Pages 305-313
Carbon Dioxide Fixation by PEP Carboxylase in Pod-walls of Chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.)....Pages 315-329
Genotypic Response to Assimilate Demand in a Variegated Leaf Mutant of Nerium Oleander ....Pages 331-341
Selective Alternations in Photosynthetic Pigment Characteristic and Photoelectron Transport during Senescence of Wheat Leaves....Pages 343-351
Front Matter....Pages 353-353
New Results on the Mechanism of Photosynthetic Water Oxidation....Pages 355-371
Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Major Light-harvesting Pigment-protein (LHCII b ) of Higher Plants....Pages 373-387
Transport of Proteins into Chloroplasts....Pages 389-397
The Role of Lipid-Protein Interactions in the Structure and Function of Photosynthetic Membranes....Pages 399-409
Introduction to Triplet-minus-Singlet Absorbance Difference Spectroscopy Monitored with Absorbance-detected Magnetic Resonance....Pages 411-420
Photosystem I Particles from Sorghum: Isolation and Characterisation of Chlorophyll-Protein Complexes under Differing Growth Light Regimes....Pages 421-431
Back Matter....Pages 433-441