The Purple Phototrophic Bacteria

Front Matter....Pages i-liv
An Overview of Purple Bacteria: Systematics, Physiology, and Habitats....Pages 1-15
Evolutionary Relationships Among Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria and the Origin of Proteobacterial Photosynthetic Systems....Pages 17-29
New Light on Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs....Pages 31-55
Biosynthesis of Bacteriochlorophylls in Purple Bacteria....Pages 57-79
Vitamin B 12 (Cobalamin) Biosynthesis in the Purple Bacteria....Pages 81-95
Distribution and Biosynthesis of Carotenoids....Pages 97-117
Membrane Lipid Biosynthesis in Purple Bacteria....Pages 119-134
Peripheral Complexes of Purple Bacteria....Pages 135-153
Reaction Center-Light-Harvesting Core Complexes of Purple Bacteria....Pages 155-179
Structure-Function Relationships in Bacterial Light-Harvesting Complexes Investigated by Reconstitution Techniques....Pages 181-198
Spectroscopic Properties of Antenna Complexes from Purple Bacteria....Pages 199-212
Energy Transfer from Carotenoids to Bacteriochlorophylls....Pages 213-230
Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Excitation Transfer and Trapping in Purple Bacteria....Pages 231-252
Organization and Assembly of Light-Harvesting Complexes in the Purple Bacterial Membrane....Pages 253-273
From Atomic-Level Structure to Supramolecular Organization in the Photosynthetic Unit of Purple Bacteria....Pages 275-294
Structural Plasticity of Reaction Centers from Purple Bacteria....Pages 295-321
Structure and Function of the Cytochrome c 2 :Reaction Center Complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides ....Pages 323-336
Directed Modification of Reaction Centers from Purple Bacteria....Pages 337-353
Mechanism of Charge Separation in Purple Bacterial Reaction Centers....Pages 355-377
The Acceptor Quinones of Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria — Structure and Spectroscopy....Pages 379-405
Biogenesis of c -type Cytochromes and Cytochrome Complexes....Pages 407-423
Structural and Mutational Studies of the Cytochrome bc 1 Complex....Pages 425-450
The Cytochrome bc 1 and Related bc Complexes: The Rieske/Cytochrome b Complex as the Functional Core of a Central Electron/Proton Transfer Complex....Pages 451-473
Proton Translocation and ATP Synthesis by the F o F 1 -ATPase of Purple Bacteria....Pages 475-493
Proton-Translocating Transhydrogenase in Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 495-508
Functional Coupling Between Reaction Centers and Cytochrome bc 1 Complexes....Pages 509-536
Respiration and Respiratory Complexes....Pages 537-561
Carbon Dioxide Metabolism and its Regulation in Nonsulfur Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 563-576
Degradation of Aromatic Compounds by Purple Nonsulfur Bacteria....Pages 577-594
Metabolism of Inorganic Sulfur Compounds in Purple Bacteria....Pages 595-622
Dissimilatory and Assimilatory Nitrate Reduction in the Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 623-642
Swimming and Behavior in Purple Non-Sulfur Bacteria....Pages 643-654
Metals and Metalloids in Photosynthetic Bacteria: Interactions, Resistance and Putative Homeostasis Revealed by Genome Analysis....Pages 655-689
Purple Bacterial Genomics....Pages 691-706
Regulation of Gene Expression in Response to Oxygen Tension....Pages 707-725
Regulation of Genes by Light....Pages 727-741
Regulation of Hydrogenase Gene Expression....Pages 743-757
Regulation of Nitrogen Fixation....Pages 759-775
Regulation of the Tetrapyrrole Biosynthetic Pathway....Pages 777-798
Bacteriophytochromes Control Photosynthesis in Rhodopseudomonas palustris ....Pages 799-809
Photoreceptor Proteins from Purple Bacteria....Pages 811-837
Foreign Gene Expression in Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 839-860
Assembly of Bacterial Light-Harvesting Complexes on Solid Substrates....Pages 861-875
Optical Spectroscopy of Individual Light-Harvesting Complexes from Purple Bacteria....Pages 877-894
 De novo Designed Bacteriochlorophyll-Binding Helix-Bundle Proteins....Pages 895-912
Design and Assembly of Functional Light-Harvesting Complexes....Pages 913-940
The Supramolecular Assembly of the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Purple Bacteria Investigated by High-Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy....Pages 941-952
Protein Environments and Electron Transfer Processes Probed with High-Frequency ENDOR....Pages 953-973
Back Matter....Pages 975-1013