The Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria

1994
ISBN: 978-0-7923-3273-2
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 892 Seiten, Format (B × H): 195 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1933 g

Reihe: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration

More than twenty years ago, as a fledgling graduate some peculiar aspects of the genetics of these student who was just starting to learn about these organisms but to pay respects to the two volumes of organisms that would become my primary research Carr of Whitton that played important roles in my focus, the publication of Noel Carr and Brian own thinking about cyanobacteria (and no doubt in Whitton's The Biology of the Blue-Green Algae in the development of many others as well). Contri­ 1973 was an event of great significance. Until the buting authors were asked to describe not only what appearance of this treatise, there was no single volume we know at present, but also to point out things we available that presented a broad overview of the don't know yet. I have attempted to assemble a book biology and biochemistry ofthese organisms. Nearly that would stimulate graduate students and other ten years later, I was privileged to be a contributing researchers in the same way that I wasaffected by the author to Carr and Whitton's sequel volume The books mentioned above. Biology of the Cyanobacteria. Although the It appears that cyanobacterial molecular biologists intervening period had been marked by heated debates have indeed paid attention to the admonition of their over the taxonomy and taxonomic position of the erstwhile colleague, W Ford Doolittle, to 'study organisms, it was also a time when the comparative those things that cyanobacteria do well.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bryant, D. A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Molecular Evolution and Taxonomy of the Cyanobacteria.- 2 The Oceanic Cyanobacterial Picoplankton.- 3 Prochlorophytes: The ‘Other’ Cyanobacteria?.- 4 Molecular Biology of Cyanelles.- 5 Chloroplast Origins and Evolution.- 6 Supramolecular Membrane Organization.- 7 Phycobilisome and Phycobiliprotein Structures.- 8 The Use of Cyanobacteria in the Study of the Structure and Function of Photosystem II.- 9 The Cytochrome b6fComplex.- 10 Photosystem I in Cyanobacteria.- 11 The F-type ATPase in Cyanobacteria: Pivotal Point in the Evolution of a Universal Enzyme.- 12 Soluble Electron Transfer Catalysts of Cyanobacteria.- 13 Cyanobacterial Respiration.- 14 The Biochemistry and Molecular Regulation of Carbon Dioxide Metabolism in Cyanobacteria.- 15 Physiological and Molecular Studies on the Response of Cyanobacteria to Changes in the Ambient Inorganic Carbon Concentration.- 16 Assimilatory Nitrogen Metabolism and Its Regulation.- 17 Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Tetrapyrrole Pigments: Hemes, Chlorophylls, and Phycobilins.- 18 Carotenoids in Cyanobacteria.- 19 Genetic Analysis of Cyanobacteria.- 20 The Transcription Apparatus and the Regulation of Transcription Initiation.- 21 The Responses of Cyanobacteria to Environmental Conditions: Light and Nutrients.- 22 Short-term and Long-term Adaptation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus: Homeostatic Properties of Thylakoids.- 23 Light-Responsive Gene Expression and the Biochemistry of the Photosystem II Reaction Center.- 24 Thioredoxins in Cyanobacteria: Structure and Redox Regulation of Enzyme Activity.- 25 Iron Deprivation: Physiology and Gene Regulation.- 26 The Cyanobacterial Heat-Shock Response and the Molecular Chaperones.- 27 Heterocyst Metabolism and Development.- 28 Differentiation of Hormogonia and Relationships with Other Biological Processes.- Organism Index.- Gene and Gene Product Index.