Recent Advances in Phototrophic Prokaryotes

By: Hallenbeck

Book Overview

Diversity and Ecology.- A New Extreme Environment for Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs: Biological Soil Crusts.- The Phototrophic Consortium "Chlorochromatium aggregatum" - A Model for Bacterial Heterologous Multicellularity.- The Ecology of Nitrogen Fixation in Cyanobacterial Mats.- Physiology, Metabolism, and Global Responses.- Nitrogen and Molybdenum Control of Nitrogen Fixation in the Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus.- The Network of PII Signalling Protein Interactions in Unicellular Cyanobacteria.- Pathway and Importance of Photorespiratory 2-Phosphoglycolate Metabolism in Cyanobacteria.- Beyond the Genome: Functional Studies of Phototrophic Sulfur Oxidation.- Multicellularity in a Heterocyst-Forming Cyanobacterium: Pathways for Intercellular Communication.- Bioenergetics, Proteins, and Genomics.- The Photoactive Orange Carotenoid Protein and Photoprotection in Cyanobacteria.- Proteomic Analysis of the Developing Intracytoplasmic Membrane in Rhodobacter sphaeroides During Adaptation to Low Light Intensity.- A Glimpse into the Proteome of Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus.- Phycobiliprotein Biosynthesis in Cyanobacteria: Structure and Function of Enzymes Involved in Post-translational Modification.- The Tetrapyrrole Biosynthetic Pathway and Its Regulation in Rhodobacter capsulatus.- Environmental Sensing and Signal Transduction.- The Gene Transfer Agent of Rhodobacter capsulatus.- Integrative Control of Carbon, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism: The Central Role of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham Cycle.- Applied Aspects.- Better Living Through Cyanothece - Unicellular Diazotrophic Cyanobacteria with Highly Versatile Metabolic Systems.- A Feasibility Study of Large-Scale Photobiological Hydrogen Production Utilizing Mariculture-Raised Cyanobacteria.- Hydrogenases and Hydrogen Metabolism in Photosynthetic Prokaryotes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441915273
• ISBN13: 9781441915276
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"