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"This text summarizes more than a decade of progress in analyzing the taxonomy, biochemistry, physiology, cellular differentiation and developmental biology of cyanobacteria by modern molecular methods, especially molecular genetics. During this period cyanobacterial molecular biologists have been ""studying those things that cyanobacteria do well"", and they have made cyanobacteria the organisms of choice for detailed molecular analyses of oxygenic photosynthesis. Part 1 contains chapters describing the molecular evolution and taxonomy of the cyanobacteria, as well as chapters describing cyanelles and the origins of algal and higher plant chloroplasts. Also included are chapters describing the picoplanktonic, oceanic cyanobacteria and prochlorophytes, ""the other cyanobacteria"". Part 2 is devoted to a detailed description of structural and functional aspects of the cyanobacterial photosynthetic apparatus. Structure, as it relates to biological function, is heavily emphasized in this portion of the book. Part 3 describes other important biochemical processes, including respiration, carbon metabolism, inorganic carbon uptake and concentration, nitrogen metabolism, tetrapyrrole biosynthesis, and carotenoid biosynthesis. Part 4 describes the cyanobacterial genetic systems and gene regulatory phenomena in these organisms. Emphasis is placed on responses to environmental stimuli, such as light intensity, light wavelength, temperature, and nutrient availability. Cellular differentiation and development phenomena, including the formation of heterocysts for nitrogen fixation and hormogonia for dispersal of organisms in the environment, are described. The book comprises 28 chapters written by leading experts from Europe, Israel, Japan, and the United States. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in the fields of photosynthesis, microbiology, plant molecular biology, biochemistry, and biotechnology."

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Author:   D.A. Bryant
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Volume:   1
Weight:   2.087kg
ISBN:  

9780792332732

ISBN 10:   0792332733
Pages:   892
Publication Date:   28 February 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

Reviews

`The editor has done his job in an excellent way, because the chapters are well-coordinated avoiding copious information, and contain harmonised terminology. The book contains excellent colour plates of crystallised proteins .... The technical quality of the book is perfect. The text has been fluently written ... the book can be highly recommended for scientists and for PhD-students of botany and biochemistry. It would be desirable to have it in libraries or in the book stock of laboratories working in the field of molecular biology and/or photosynthesis or plant phsyiology.' Journal of Plant Physiology, 147 (1995) `... the volume is an excellent summary of information on blue-green algae, their photosynthetic metabolism and its genetic coding. The texts are supplemented with broad lists of rull references (74 to 451 per chapter) The volume has three perfect indexes: of organisms, genes and their products, and subjects. The books belongs to basic items of every photosynthesis library.' Photosynthetica, 32:2 (1996)

The editor has done his job in an excellent way, because the chapters are well-coordinated avoiding copious information, and contain harmonised terminology. The book contains excellent colour plates of crystallised proteins .... The technical quality of the book is perfect. The text has been fluently written ... the book can be highly recommended for scientists and for PhD-students of botany and biochemistry. It would be desirable to have it in libraries or in the book stock of laboratories working in the field of molecular biology and/or photosynthesis or plant phsyiology.' Journal of Plant Physiology, 147 (1995) ... the volume is an excellent summary of information on blue-green algae, their photosynthetic metabolism and its genetic coding. The texts are supplemented with broad lists of rull references (74 to 451 per chapter) The volume has three perfect indexes: of organisms, genes and their products, and subjects. The books belongs to basic items of every photosynthesis library.' Photosynthetica, 32:2 (1996)

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