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Recent advances in phototrophic prokaryotes / Patrick C. Hallenbeck, editor. — New York ; London : Springer, 2010. – (58.67083/I61) |
Contents
Contents
Part I Diversity and Ecology
1 A New Extreme Environment for Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs: Biological Soil Crusts 3
2 The Phototrophic Consortium "Chlorochromatium aggregatum" - A Model for Bacterial Heterologous Multicellularity 15
3 The Ecology of Nitrogen Fixation in Cyanobacterial Mats 31
Part II Physiology， Metabolism， and Global Responses
4 Nitrogen and Molybdenum Control of Nitrogen Fixation in the Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus 49
5 The Network of PII Signalling Protein Interactions in Unicellular Cyanobacteria
6 Pathway and Importance of Photorespiratory 2-Phosphoglycolate Metabolism in Cyanobacteria 91
7 Beyond the Genome: Functional Studies of Phototrophic Sulfur Oxidation 109
8 Multicellularity in a Heterocyst-Forming Cyanobacterium: Pathways for Intercellular Communication
Part III Bioenergetics， Proteins， and Genomics
9 The Photoactive Orange Carotenoid Protein and Photoprotection in Cyanobacteria
10 Proteomic Analysis of the Developing Intracytoplasmic Membrane in Rhodobacter sphaeroides During Adaptation to Low Light Intensity 161
11 A Glimpse into the Proteome of Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus
12 Phycobiliprotein Biosynthesis in Cyanobacteria: Structure and Function of Enzymes Involved in Post-translational Modification 211
13 The Tetrapyrrole Biosynthetic Pathway and Its Regulation in Rhodobacter capsulatus 229
Part IV Environmental Sensing and Signal Transduction
14 The Gene Transfer Agent of Rhodobacter capsulatus 253
15 Integrative Control of Carbon， Nitrogen， Hydrogen， and Sulfur Metabolism: The Central Role of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham Cycle 265
Part V Applied Aspects
16 Better Living Through Cyanothece - Unicellular Diazotrophic Cyanobacteria with Highly Versatile Metabolic Systems 275
17 A Feasibility Study of Large-Scale Photobiological Hydrogen Production Utilizing Mariculture-Raised Cyanobacteria 291
18 Hydrogenases and Hydrogen Metabolism in Photosynthetic Prokaryotes
Subject Index 349
