The Chloroplast: From Molecular Biology to Biotechnology

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Dinoflagellate Light-Harvesting Proteins: Genes, Structure and Reconstitution....Pages 3-10
Organisation of the Photosystem Two Light Harvesting System....Pages 11-18
Three-Dimensional Structure of Photosystem I....Pages 19-26
Organization and Function of Photosystem I Trimers and Monomers of the Cyanobacterium Spirulina Platensis ....Pages 27-34
Progress in the Crystallization of Photosystem II Components....Pages 35-40
The Photosynthetic Apparatus of Prochloron -Like Cyanobacteria....Pages 41-46
Phycobilisome-To-Photosystem I Excitation Transfer is Enhanced in Water-Depleted Cells and Depressed in Water-Replete Cells of Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC7942....Pages 47-54
Structural-Functional Organization of Thylakoids in Developing Chloroplasts....Pages 55-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
The Chloroplast: Part of the Integrated Genetic System of the Plant Cell....Pages 63-72
Phage-Type RNA Polymerases in Higher Plants....Pages 73-78
Novel in Vitro Transcription Assay Indicates that the ACC D Nep Promoter is Contained in a 19 BP Fragment....Pages 79-84
Polyadenylation and Degradation of mRNA in the Chloroplast....Pages 85-90
DNA-Binding Proteins of Chloroplast Nucleoids....Pages 91-96
Pigment-Protein Complexes, Plastid Development and Photooxidative Protection....Pages 97-102
Small Cab-Like Proteins: Relatives to the Chlorophyll A/B Binding Proteins in Cyanobacteria....Pages 103-106
High-Light Induced Proteins HL#2 of Barley are Exported to the Apoplast....Pages 107-112
Expression of rbcS , rbcL and rca Genes during Senescence and Regreening of Zantedeschia Aethiopica Floral Spathe....Pages 113-116
Expression of Glutathione Peroxidase during Zantedeschia Aethiopica Spathe Senescence and Regreening....Pages 117-120
Molecular Effects of Some Stress Factors on the Chloroplast Genetic Apparatus of the Flagellate Euglena gracilis ....Pages 121-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Protein Import Across Chloroplast Envelopes....Pages 131-136
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Characterization of the Arabidopsis PPI1 Mutant....Pages 137-142
Isolation and Characterization of Chlamydomonas Mutants Deficient in the Plastid YCF10 Open Reading Frame....Pages 143-148
Structure and Function of Cema Homologue (PXCA) in Cyanobacteria....Pages 149-154
Import and Processing of E. Coli Expressed Polyphenol Oxidase by Isolated Chloroplasts....Pages 155-160
The Role of the Envelope in Assembly of Light-Harvesting Complexes in the Chloroplast: Distribution of Lhcp between Chloroplast and Vacuoles during Chloroplast Development in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ....Pages 161-166
Characterization of the Plastid Import Reaction of the Pea Nadph: Protochlorophyllide Oxidoreductase (POR).....Pages 167-170
Tocopherol Biosynthesis in Senescing Chloroplasts - A Mechanism to Protect Envelope Membranes against Oxidative Stress and a Prerequisite for Lipid Remobilization ?....Pages 171-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
The Effect of Light on the Biosynthesis and Function of Nadph-Protochlorophyllide Oxidoreductases (PORs) A and B in Seedlings of Arabidopsis Thaliana and Hordeum Vulgare ....Pages 179-184
Redox Reactions in the Last Steps of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis....Pages 185-190
Cofactor Requirement of the Enzymatic Reduction of Chlorophyll B to Chlorophyll A ....Pages 191-194
Effects of Nuclear y Mutations on Expression of Plastid Genes Required for Light-Independent Chlorophyll Formation in Chlamydomonas ....Pages 195-200
Can Psilotum and/or Gnetum Synthesise Chlorophyll in Darkness?....Pages 201-205
Protochlorophyllide and Por in the Lip1 Mutant of Pea....Pages 207-212
Subtrate Specificity of Overexpressed Bacteriochlorophyll Synthase from Chloroflexus Aurantiacus ....Pages 213-216
Carotenoids in Higher Plants and Algae....Pages 217-223
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Abundance of Photosystem I Proteins in Cyanobacteria and Chloroplasts....Pages 227-232
De Novo Synthesis of Chlorophyll a Triggers Assembly of Reaction Centers in Barley Etioplasts....Pages 233-236
Reconstitution of Co-Translational Targeting of Polytopic Membrane Proteins to the Thylakoids in a Homologous Chloroplast Translation System....Pages 237-242
Aggregational States of in Vitro Synthesized D1 and D2 Proteins....Pages 243-246
The Abundance of Cab and psbA Transcripts and of Their Products in Greening Etiolated Leaves Transferred to Darkness....Pages 247-252
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Chlorophyll-Binding Proteins in Cyanobacteria....Pages 253-258
Molecular Cloning and Characterization of ClpX, a Potential Regulator of Chloroplastic Clp Protease....Pages 259-264
Light Stress-Activated Proteases in the Thylakoid Lumen....Pages 265-270
The Carboxyl-Terminal Processing of Precursor D1 Protein of Photosystem II Reaction Center by a Nuclear-Encoded Protease (CtpA)....Pages 271-276
Proteolytic Mechanism in Lhcii Stabilization....Pages 277-282
The Regulatory Role of Polyamines on the Structural and Functional Photoadaptation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus....Pages 283-286
Alterations in the Plastid Membrane-Associated Polyamines during Chloroplast Photodevelopment....Pages 287-290
Chlorophyll Fluorescence Kinetic Depends on Age of Leaves and Plants....Pages 291-296
Successive Degradation of the Light-Harvesting System of the Photosynthetic Apparatus during Senescence of Barley Flag Leaves....Pages 297-302
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Membrane Proteins of Photosynthesis: Structure - Function - Biotechnology....Pages 305-310
tRNA Glu Mediated δ-Aminolevulinate Biosynthesis and Biotechnology....Pages 311-315
A Transgenic Approach to Characterize the Plastid Transcription Machinery in Higher Plants....Pages 317-323
Structure and Function of the Photosynthetic Apparatus in Transgenic Tobacco....Pages 325-330
Light, Temperature and Redox Control of the Development of the Photosynthetic Apparatus....Pages 331-336
Influence of a CO 2 -Partial Pressure of 700 PPM on the Lipid and Fatty Acid Composition of Higher Plants....Pages 337-342
The Stabilizing Effect of Glycine Betaine on the Modified Photosystem II Particles under Heat Stress....Pages 343-346
Application of Thylakoids in Herbicide-Detecting System....Pages 347-350
Back Matter....Pages 351-356