Green Photosynthetic Bacteria

by J.M. Olson

Overview

J. M. Olson Institute of Biochemistry Odense University OK-5230 Odense M, Denmark Green photosynthetic bacteria have traditionally included only green sulfur bacteria (Chlorobiaceae) and green filamentous bacteria (Chloro- flexaceae), but in this volume are included also the recently-discovered heliobacteria (Gram-positive line), whose reaction centers are strikingly similar to those of the green sulfur bacteria. Two important papers on reaction centers (not included in this volume) have been published recently. Nitschke et al. (1987) have discovered 2 early electron acceptors (Fe-S centers) in the reaction center of Chlorobium limicola, and Shiozawa et al. (1987) have shown that the reaction center of Chloroflexus aurantiacus contains 2 (rather than 3) polypeptides of Mr = 24 and 24.5 kOa respectively. This volume begIns with papers describing structures on the molecular and macromolecular level and events on a picosecond time scale. It ends with papers describing organisms and populations, and events on time scales of hours, days and weeks. The scope of the volume covers biophysics, biochemistry, physiology, ecology, taxonomy and phylogeny. There is only one paper (Ormerod, 1988) dealing with genetics, an area which ought to receive much more attention in the near future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461282969
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	10/13/2011
Edition description:	1988
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

I. Chlorosomes and Chlorophyll-Binding Proteins.- Structural Studies on Chlorosomes from Prosthecochloris aestuarii.- Spin Label Studies on Chlorosomes from Green Bacteria.- Ground-State Molecular Interactions of Bacteriochlorophyll c in Chlorosomes of Green Bacteria and in Model Systems: A Resonance Raman Study.- Growth Rate and the Control of Development of the Photosynthetic Apparatus in Chloroflexus aurantiacus as Studied on the Basis of Cytoplasmic Membrane Structure and Chlorosome Size.- The Bacteriochlorophyl1 c—Binding Protein from Chlorosomes of Chlorobium limicola f. thiosulfatophilum.- Structural Studies on the Antenna Complexes and Polypeptides of Chloroflexus aurantiacus and Other Green Photosynthetic Bacteria.- II. Energy Transfer.- Energy Trapping and Electron Transfer in Chloroflexus aurantiacus.- Transfer of Excitation Energy in Chloroflexus aurantiacus.- Excitation Energy Transfer in Living Cells of the Green Bacterium Chlorobium limicola Studied by Picosecond Fluorescence Spectroscopy.- Picosecond Energy Transfer Kinetics in Chlorosomes and Bacteriochlorophyll a-Proteins of Chlorobium limicola.- III. Reaction Centers.- Electron Transfer in the Reaction Center of Green Sulfur Bacteria and Heliobacterium chlorum.- Comparative Study of Spectral and Kinetic Properties of Electron Transfer in Purple and Green Photosynthetic Bacteria.- Triplet-Minus-Singlet Optical Difference Spectroscopy of Some Green Photosynthetic Bacteria.- IV. Electron Trrnsport.- Soluble Electron Transfer Proteins of Chiorobiaceae.- Complex Formation between Chlorobium limicola f. thiosulfatophilum c-Type Cyhromes.- The Mechanism of Photosynthetic Electron Transport and Energy Transduction by Membrane Fragments from Chloroflexus aurantiacus.- Electron Transport Chains of Phototrophically and Chemotrophically Grown Chloroflexus aurantiacus.- V. Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Sulfur Metabolism.- A New C02 Fixation Mechanism in Chloroflexus aurantiacus Studied by 13C-NMR.- Kinetic and Regulatory Properties of Citrate Synthase from the Thermophilic Green Gliding Bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus.- Hydrogenases of Green Bacteria.- Ammonia Assimilation and Amino Acid Metabolism in Chloroflexus aurantiacus.- Nitrogen Metabolism and N2 Fixation in Phototrophic Green Bacteria.- Metabolism of Thiosulfate in Chlorobium.- VI. Phylogeny And Taxonomy.- Phylogenetic, Evolutionary, and Taxonomic Aspects of Phototrophic Eubacteria.- Inferring Eubacterial Phylogeny from SS Ribosomal RNA Structure Analysis.- Lipids, Fatty Acids and Quinones in Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria.- A New Green Sulfur Bacterium from a Freshwater Pond.- Preliminary Characterization of a Temperate Marine Member of the Chloroflexaceae.- VII. Physiology and Ecology.- The Green Sulfur and Nonsulfur Bacteria of Hot Springs.- Ecological Niches of Green Sulfur and Gliding Bacteria.- Diel Migration as a Mechanism for Enrichment of Natural Populations of Branching Species of Pelodictyon.- Growth of Chlorobium limicola f. thiosulfatophilum on Polysulfides.- Physiological Aspects of High Sulfide Tolerance in a Photosynthetic Bacterium.- Differences between in situ and in vitro Redox Conditions due to the Rctivity of the Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobium phaeobacteroides.- A Study of Green Photosynthetic Bacteria from a Thermal Sulfur Spring.- VIII. Genetics.- Natural Genetic Transformation in Chlorobium....315.- Contributors Index.