The Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria

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More than twenty years ago, as a fledgling graduate some peculiar aspects of the genetics of these student who was just starting to learn about these organisms but to pay respects to the two volumes of organisms that would become my primary research Carr of Whitton that played important roles in my focus, the publication of Noel Carr and Brian own thinking about cyanobacteria (and no doubt in Whitton's The Biology of the Blue-Green Algae in the development of many others as well). Contri­ 1973 was an event of great significance. Until the buting authors were asked to describe not only what appearance of this treatise, there was no single volume we know at present, but also to point out things we available that presented a broad overview of the don't know yet. I have attempted to assemble a book biology and biochemistry ofthese organisms. Nearly that would stimulate graduate students and other ten years later, I was privileged to be a contributing researchers in the same way that I was affected by the author to Carr and Whitton's sequel volume The books mentioned above. Biology of the Cyanobacteria. Although the It appears that cyanobacterial molecular biologists intervening period had been marked by heated debates have indeed paid attention to the admonition of their over the taxonomy and taxonomic position of the erstwhile colleague, W Ford Doolittle, to 'study organisms, it was also a time when the comparative those things that cyanobacteria do well. Molecular Evolution and Taxonomy of the Cyanobacteria....Pages 1-25 The Oceanic Cyanobacterial Picoplankton....Pages 27-48 Prochlorophytes: The ‘Other’ Cyanobacteria?....Pages 49-64 Molecular Biology of Cyanelles....Pages 65-89 Chloroplast Origins and Evolution....Pages 91-118 Supramolecular Membrane Organization....Pages 119-138 Phycobilisome and Phycobiliprotein Structures....Pages 139-216 The Use of Cyanobacteria in the Study of the Structure and Function of Photosystem II....Pages 217-257 The Cytochrome b 6 f Complex....Pages 259-317 Photosystem I in Cyanobacteria....Pages 319-360 The F-type ATPase in Cyanobacteria: Pivotal Point in the Evolution of a Universal Enzyme....Pages 361-380 Soluble Electron Transfer Catalysts of Cyanobacteria....Pages 381-407 Cyanobacterial Respiration....Pages 409-435 The Biochemistry and Molecular Regulation of Carbon Dioxide Metabolism in Cyanobacteria....Pages 437-467 Physiological and Molecular Studies on the Response of Cyanobacteria to Changes in the Ambient Inorganic Carbon Concentration....Pages 469-485 Assimilatory Nitrogen Metabolism and Its Regulation....Pages 487-517 Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Tetrapyrrole Pigments Hemes, Chlorophylls, and Phycobilins....Pages 519-558 Carotenoids in Cyanobacteria....Pages 559-579 Genetic Analysis of Cyanobacteria....Pages 581-611 The Transcription Apparatus and the Regulation of Transcription Initiation....Pages 613-639 The Responses of Cyanobacteria to Environmental Conditions: Light and Nutrients....Pages 641-675 Short-term and Long-term Adaptation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus: Homeostatic Properties of Thylakoids....Pages 677-692 Light-Responsive Gene Expression and the Biochemistry of the Photosystem II Reaction Center....Pages 693-714 Thioredoxins in Cyanobacteria: Structure and Redox Regulation of Enzyme Activity....Pages 715-729 Iron Deprivation: Physiology and Gene Regulation....Pages 731-750 The Cyanobacterial Heat-Shock Response and the Molecular Chaperones....Pages 751-767 Heterocyst Metabolism and Development....Pages 769-823 Differentiation of Hormogonia and Relationships with Other Biological Processes....Pages 825-842