Recent Advances in Phototrophic Prokaryotes

Part I Diversity and Ecology 1 A New Extreme Environment for Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs: Biological Soil Crusts 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Part III Bioenergetics, Proteins, and Genomics 9 The Photoactive Orange Carotenoid Protein and Photoprotection in Cyanobacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349