Photosynthesis: Molecular Biology and Bioenergetics

ISBN-13: 9783642742231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 441 str.

G. S. Singhal; James Barber; Richard A. Dilley

Opis

Plant productivity depends upon the photosynthetic conversion of the light energy into chemical energy stored in the biomass of plants. An intermediate step in this energy conversion process is electron transfer and proton translocation. At present, several research groups are working on projects that are expected to lead to rapid improvement of our understanding of the photosynthetic process. This book is a compilation of the work being done on the applications of molecular biology and bioenergetics of photosynthesis.

Spis treści

1: Genes and Polypeptides of Photosystem.- Genes of the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Higher Plants Structure, Expression and Strategies for their Engineering.- Specific Mutagenesis as a Tool for the Analysis of Structure/Function Relationships in Photosystem II.- Replication of Chloroplast DNA: Replication Origins, Topoisomerase I, and In Vitro Replication.- Molecular Genetics of Herbicide Resistance in Cyanobacteria.- Molecular Analysis of a Gene (irp A) Encoding a Function Essential for Iron-limited Growth in the Cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans R2.- Primary Structure and Expression in Escherichia coli of the Mn-stabilising Protein Involved in Photosystem II Water Oxidation.- Further Characterisation of the Isolated PS2 Reaction Centre.- Use of Synthetic Peptides in Studies on the Biogenesis and Phosphorylation of Photosystem II Proteins.- Functional Role for 33KDa Proteins in the Oxygen Evolution Complex (OEC).- Heat-shock Proteins Associated with Chloroplasts.- The Role of Chloride in Oxygen Evolution.- Isolation of a Highly Active PS II Preparation from Wheat Triticum Aestivum and the Chemical Modification of Tyrosine Residues with 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan (NBD-C1).- Phosphorylation of Photosystem Two Reaction Centre Polypeptides.- Trafficking and Distribution of the Photosynthetic Reaction Centre Proteins in the Chloroplast Membranes.- 2: Energy Transduction.- Linear-dichroic Triplet-minus-Singlet Absorbance Difference Spectra of Borohydride-treated Reaction Centres of Rhodobacter sphaeroides R26.- Ca++ Gating of Proton Fluxes in Thylakoid Membranes: Regulation of Localised and Delocalised Energy Coupled Proton Gradients.- Plastoquinone Diffusion in Proteoliposomes Studied by Pyrene Fluorescence Quenching.- The Involvement of Sulphydryl Group of Coupling Factor 1 (CF1) in Energy Transduction in Chloroplast.- 3: Stress Effects on Photosynthesis Organisms.- The Bioenergetics of Stress Responses in Cyanobacteria.- CAM Induction in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum: Protein Expression.- Sensitivity to Far-uv Light as a Parameter for the Study of in vivo Regulation of Development of PSII Particles in Cyanobacteria: An Analytical Model.- Effects of Light Chilling on Photophosphorylation in Cucumber.- Effect of Heat Stress on Photosynthesis and Respiration in a Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Mutant.- Inhibition of Energy Transfer Reactions in Cyanobacteria by Different Ultraviolet Radiation.- Carbon Dioxide Fixation by PEP Carboxylase in Pod-walls of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.).- Genotypic Response to Assimilate Demand in a Variegated Leaf Mutant of Nerium Oleander.- Selective Alternations in Photosynthetic Pigment Characteristic and Photoelectron Transport during Senescence of Wheat Leaves.- 4: Molecular Structure—Functions, Relationships.- New Results on the Mechanism of Photosynthetic Water Oxidation.- Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Major Light-harvesting Pigment-protein (LHCIIb) of Higher Plants.- Transport of Proteins into Chloroplasts.- The Role of Lipid-Protein Interactions in the Structure and Function of Photosynthetic Membranes.- to Triplet-minus-Singlet Absorbance Difference Spectroscopy Monitored with Absorbance-detected Magnetic Resonance.- Photosystem I Particles from Sorghum: Isolation and Characterisation of Chlorophyll-Protein Complexes under Differing Growth Light Regimes.