Ebook: Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects: Volume I Proceedings of the XIth International Congress on Photosynthesis, Budapest, Hungary, August 17–22, 1998

Photosynthesis is a process on which virtually all life on Earth depends. To answer the basic questions at all levels of complexity, from molecules to ecosystems, and to establish correlations and interactions between these levels, photosynthesis research - perhaps more than any other discipline in biology - requires a multidisciplinary approach. Congresses probably provide the only forums where progress throughout the whole field can be overviewed. The Congress proceedings give faithful pictures of recent advances in photosynthesis research and outline trends and perspectives in all areas, ranging from molecular events to aspects of photosynthesis on the global scale. The Proceedings Book, a set of 4 (or 5) volumes, is traditionally highly recognized and intensely quoted in the literature, and is found on the shelves of most senior scientists in the field and in all major libraries.

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Photosynthesis is a process on which virtually all life on Earth depends. To answer the basic questions at all levels of complexity, from molecules to ecosystems, and to establish correlations and interactions between these levels, photosynthesis research - perhaps more than any other discipline in biology - requires a multidisciplinary approach. Congresses probably provide the only forums where progress throughout the whole field can be overviewed. The Congress proceedings give faithful pictures of recent advances in photosynthesis research and outline trends and perspectives in all areas, ranging from molecular events to aspects of photosynthesis on the global scale. The Proceedings Book, a set of 4 (or 5) volumes, is traditionally highly recognized and intensely quoted in the literature, and is found on the shelves of most senior scientists in the field and in all major libraries.

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Photosynthesis is a process on which virtually all life on Earth depends. To answer the basic questions at all levels of complexity, from molecules to ecosystems, and to establish correlations and interactions between these levels, photosynthesis research - perhaps more than any other discipline in biology - requires a multidisciplinary approach. Congresses probably provide the only forums where progress throughout the whole field can be overviewed. The Congress proceedings give faithful pictures of recent advances in photosynthesis research and outline trends and perspectives in all areas, ranging from molecular events to aspects of photosynthesis on the global scale. The Proceedings Book, a set of 4 (or 5) volumes, is traditionally highly recognized and intensely quoted in the literature, and is found on the shelves of most senior scientists in the field and in all major libraries.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Structure Determination of Antenna Complexes Using Two-Dimensional Femtosecond Electronic Spectroscopies....Pages 3-8
Ultrafast Energy Transfer from Rhodopin Glucoside in the Light Harvesting Complexes of RPS. Acidophila.....Pages 9-14
Exciton Delocalization in Antenna Complexes.....Pages 15-20
Exciton Relaxation and Transfer in the Antenna Network of Photosynthetic Bacteria....Pages 21-24
Which Mechanism of Excitation Transfer Works in Antenna Systems of Photosynthetic Bacteria Among F?rster, Hot Transfer, Superexchange and Exciton?....Pages 25-28
Exciton Delocalization in Antenna Complexes of Purple and Green Bacteria as Revealed by Femtosecond Pump-Probe Spectroscopy....Pages 29-32
Red Emission From LH2 at Low Temperature: Where Does it Come From?....Pages 33-36
Ultrafast Carotenoid Band Shifts Probe Structure and Dynamics in Photosynthesis.....Pages 37-40
Energy Relaxation Within the B850 Absorption Band of the LH2 Complex from Rhodopseudomanas Acidophila at 7 K....Pages 41-44
Characterization of Bchl A’s in B873, B820 and B777 of Light-Harvesting Complex 1 (LH1) From Rhodospirillum Rubrum by Magnetic Circular Dichroism Budapest, Hungary, 17–22 August 1998....Pages 45-48
Spectral and Photochemical Properties of Light-Harvesting-Complex II of Purple Bacteria Treated with Sodium Borohydride....Pages 49-52
Up-Hill Energy Transfer in LH1+LH2 Purple Bacteria....Pages 53-56
Structural Origin of High-800 Peripheral Antenna Complexes....Pages 57-60
Altered Bacteriochlorophyll Associations in Combinatorial Mutants of the Rhodobacter Capsulatus Light Harvesting 2 Complex....Pages 61-64
A Study of the Energetic Properties of LH2 Complexes From Rps. Acidophila10050 Containing Modified (Bacterio) Chlorin Molecules....Pages 65-68
Pigment Exchange Strategy Towards the Investigations of Energy Transfer in Bacterial LH1 Complex....Pages 69-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-76
The Size of the LH1 Antenna of Purple Bacteria....Pages 77-80
Molecular Assembly of Bachteriochlorophylls by Light-Harvesting Model Polypeptides....Pages 81-84
Selective extraction of proteins from Chlorobium tepidum chlorosomes....Pages 85-88
Stacking of Macrocycles in Bacteriochlorophyll c Aggregates and in Chlorosomes....Pages 1-1
Evidence from Solid State NMR Correlation Spectroscopy for two Interstack Arrangements in the Chlorosome Antenna System....Pages 89-92
Polarized Light Spectroscopy of the Green Bacteria....Pages 93-96
Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy as a Test for the Chlorosome Antenna Structure....Pages 97-100
Self-Assembly of Synthetic Zinc Chlorins in Aqueous Microheterogeneous Media: Structural and Functional Models for Chlorosomes....Pages 101-104
Effects of Homologs for Aggregation of Bacteriochlorophyll c and Bacteriochlorophyll d in Chlorosomes of Green Sulfur Bacteria....Pages 105-108
Self-Aggregates of Synthetic Zinc 20-Substituted Chlorins as Models for Chlorosomal Photosynthetic Antennae....Pages 109-112
Self-Aggregates of Synthetic Bacteriochlorophyll-F Derivatives....Pages 113-116
The Role of Bacteriochlorophyll e and Carotenoids in Light Harvesting in Brown-Colored Green Sulfur Bacteria....Pages 117-120
Quenching of Energy Transfer in Chlorosomes from Chloroflexus by the Addition of Synthetic Quinones....Pages 121-124
Alkali Treatment of Green Bacterial Chlorosomes....Pages 125-128
Adaptation of the Photosynthetic Antenna of BChl d-Containing Bacteria to Low Light Intensities....Pages 129-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-136
Effects of Growth Condition Changes on the Photosynthetic Pigment Systems for Green Sulfur Bacteria. A Study on the Constituent of the Photosynthetic Pigment in Chlorosome....Pages 137-140
Changes in the Antenna Composition of Chlorobium Limicola Growing in Continuous Culture....Pages 141-144
Low Temperature Excitation Transfer in the FMO Complex. Simulations.....Pages 145-148
Time-Resolved Spectra of the FMO-Complex of Green Sulfur Bacteria: Simulations and Experiments....Pages 149-152
Functional Meaning of the Symmetry Structure in Phycobiliprotein Aggregates....Pages 153-156
Energetic Uncoupling and Dissociation of Cyanobacterial Antenna by Low Phosphate Concentration or Low Temperature....Pages 157-160
Coupling of Phycobilisomes to Reaction Centres in Cyanobacteria....Pages 161-164
Molecular Analysis of Factors Involved in Energy Transfer from Phycobilisomes to Photosystems I and II in a Cyanobacterium....Pages 165-168
State Transitions in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7942. Mobile Antenna or Spillover?....Pages 1-1
Front Matter....Pages 169-172
Relatedness of Caroteno-Chlorophyll Antenna Complexes in Algae and Plants....Pages 173-176
Solutions to the Light-Harvesting Problem: Mix, Match and Duplicate....Pages 177-180
Mutation analysis of either protein or chromophore moieties in Higher Plants Light Harvesting Proteins....Pages 181-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-188
Spectroscopic Characterization of Reconstituted LHCII Which Contains Mainly CHL B and Xanthophylls.....Pages 189-192
Carotenoid-Induced Electronic Relaxation of the First Excited State of Antenna Chlorophylls....Pages 193-196
Photosystem I Red Spectral Forms: Diffusion Limited Energy Transfer, Optical Reorganisation Energy and Absorption Cross Section.....Pages 197-200
Ultrafast Absorption Changes of the LHCII Carotenoids Upon Selective Excitation of the Chlorophylls....Pages 201-204
Excited State Mixing Effects in Transient Absorption Spectra of the Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Complex II.....Pages 205-208
Functional and Spectral Assignment of Chlorophylls in the Light Harvesting Complex II of Higher Plants....Pages 209-212
Studies on the PSII Particles and Core Complexes Using Femtosecond Absorption Spectroscopy....Pages 213-216
Direct Resolution of Spectral Fine-Structure and Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics in Light Harvesting Complex II by Nonlinear Polarization Spectroscopy in the Frequency Domain....Pages 217-220
Topographical Studies on the LHC II from Spinach by Chemical Crosslinking....Pages 221-224
Structural Characterization of Megacomplexes of Photosystem II and LHCII Of Grana Membranes....Pages 225-228
Refined Analysis of Supercomplexes of Photosystem II and LHCII of Grana Membranes from Spinach....Pages 229-232
Light Gradient Photovoltage in Spherical Photosynthetic Vesicles.....Pages 233-236
Spectral Analysis of LHC II Antenna Complex by Means of Photobleaching....Pages 237-237
Circular Polarization of Luminescence Correlates with Circular Dichroism at Varied Structural Organization of Grana in Pea Chloroplasts....Pages 239-246
Electro-Optical Investigation of LHC II Macroaggregates....Pages 247-252
Thermal Stability and Conformational Properties of Lamellar Macroaggregates of LHC II....Pages 253-258
Mg2+-Induced LHC II Aggregation Kinetics and its Migration in Thylakoid Membrane....Pages 237-237
Zeaxanthin-induced fluorescence quenching in the minor antenna CP29....Pages 259-264
Reversible Light-Induced Fluorescence Quenching — an Inherent Property of LHCII....Pages 265-270
Light-Induced Ion Movements in Thylakoid Membranes and Isolated LHCII....Pages 271-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-280
Model Calculations on the Mechanism of the Light-Induced Structural Changes in Lamellar Aggregates of LHCII....Pages 281-284
Nature of Irreversible Structural Changes Induced by Intense Light in Thylakoids. Small Angle X-ray and Neutron Scattering of Magnetically Aligned Chloroplasts....Pages 285-288
Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Xanthophyll-rich Pigment-protein complex from Spinach.....Pages 289-292
Crystallization of Light-Harvesting Complex II from Vicia Faba (Fabaceae)....Pages 293-296
Chlorophyll exchange on reconstituted LHCII: Chlorophyll a is essential for Trimerisation....Pages 297-300
Kinetic Studies of the Assembly of Plant Light Harvesting Complex II.....Pages 301-304
Identification and role of the lipid binding site on light-harvesting complex II....Pages 305-308
Characterization of Photosystem II Antenna Complexes Separated by Non-Denaturing Isoelectric Focusing....Pages 309-312
Domain-specific Random Mutagenesis in Light Harvesting Chlorophyll a/b Protein (LHCII).....Pages 313-316
A Complex Gene Encoding a Dinoflagellate Light-Harvesting Protein....Pages 317-320
Light-Induced Quenching of Chlorophyll Fluorescence at 77 K in Thylakoids and Whole Leaves....Pages 321-324
Membrane Protein Phosphorylation Leads to the Structural Alterations in Maize Mesophyll Chloroplasts....Pages 325-328
Differences in Characteristics of Photosystem I and II Complexes from Various Regions of Thylakoid Membranes....Pages 329-332
Energy Equilibration in the Antenna of Photosystem I From Cyanobacterium Synechocystis SP. PCC 6803.....Pages 333-336
Spectral Properties of Long-Wavelength Chlorophylls in Barley Photosystem I Depend on Intimate Interaction Between LHCA1, LHCA4 and the Reaction Centre....Pages 337-340
Long Wavelength Absorption Forms in Spirulina PSI Trimers.....Pages 341-344
The Light-Harvesting Complex of Photosystem I: Pigment Composition and Stoichiometry....Pages 237-237
Front Matter....Pages 345-348
Ligand requirement for LHC I reconstitution....Pages 349-352
Accumulation of Lhci in Picea and Maize Seedlings Greened Under Different Conditions....Pages 353-356
Spectral Changes of Chlorophyll Fluorescence During Linear Heating of Barley Leaves....Pages 357-360
Peridinin Chlorophyll Protein: Structure and Dynamics Related....Pages 361-364
Low-Temperature Protein Dynamics in Purple Bacteria and Green Plants Studied by Time-Resolved Hole-Burning.....Pages 365-368
F?rster Overlap Integral for Chlorophyll a in a Protein Matrix.....Pages 369-372
Characterisation of Chlorophyll A and Chlorophyll B Monomers in Various Solvent Environments With Ultrafast Spectroscopy....Pages 373-376
Interaction of Photosynthetic Pigments with Various Organic Solvents as Revealed from Magnetic Circular Dichroism Measurements....Pages 377-380
Molecular Requirements of Chlorophylls for the Antenna Function of their Self-Assembled Forms....Pages 381-384
Determination of the Aggregate Size in Chlorophyll a Oligomers by Non-Linear Absorption Spectroscopy on the ps and fs Timescale....Pages 385-388
The Effect of Solvent on the Lifetime of the Lowest Excited Singlet S1 (21Ag) State of Spheroidene....Pages 389-392
Quenching of Chlorophyl Fluorescence by Carotenoids in a Micellar Model System....Pages 393-396
Quenching of Chlorophyll a Fluorescence by ?-Carotene....Pages 397-400
Light-Harvesting and Photoprotection by Carotenoids: Structure-Based Calculations for Photosynthetic Antenna Systems....Pages 401-404
Triplet-Triplet Absorption Spectra and Extinction Coefficients of Lutein, Neoxanthin and Violaxanthin....Pages 405-408
Front Matter....Pages 409-412
Structure-Function Relationships and Excitation Dynamics in Photosystem I....Pages 413-416
Transfer-to-the-Trap Limited Model of Energy Transfer in Photosystem 1....Pages 417-420
Structural Information on Components of the Electron Transfer Chain in Photosystem I From Time-Resolved EPR Spectroscopy....Pages 421-424
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Mutational Analysis of Photosystem I Function of Phylloquinones....Pages 425-428
Reaction Centre Complexes of Green Sulfur Bacteria....Pages 429-432
Evidence for the association of three FMO subunits per reaction center of Chlorobium Tepidum by scanning transmission electron microscopy....Pages 433-436
Electron Transfer in Reaction Centers From Green Sulfur Bacteria....Pages 437-440
Forward Electron Transfer in Chlorobium Reaction Centres Studied by Transient EPR....Pages 441-444
A Comparison of the Quinone Binding Sites in Photosystem I and Purple Bacteria....Pages 445-448
Studies of the Protein Binding Pocket for Naphthoquinones in Type I (Ferredoxin-Reducing) Reaction Centres.....Pages 449-452
Excitation Energy Transfer and Trapping in PS I: Fluorescence Induction and Picosecond Fluorescence Kinetics....Pages 453-456
Time-Resolved Fluorescence Measurements of Photosystem 1 From Synechocystis PCC 6803....Pages 457-460
Excitation Wavelength Dependence of the Excitation Transfer in Photosystem I Reaction Center With Reduced Number of Antenna Chlorophylls....Pages 461-464
Oligomeric Assembly and Biogenesis of Cyanobacterial Photosystem I.....Pages 465-468
Fluorescence Kinetics of Photosystem I: Multiple Fluorescence Components....Pages 469-472
A Survey of Conserved Histidines in the Photosystem 1 Core: Methodology and Analysis of the PSAB-H656L Mutant....Pages 473-476
Effect of PsaB-HIS656?Leu Mutation on Optical and Infrared Difference Spectra of P700 Photooxidation....Pages 477-482
Front Matter....Pages 483-486
Molecular Dissection of Photosystem I by Atomic Force Microscopy....Pages 487-490
New Structural Details of Photosystem I at 4 ? Resolution....Pages 491-494
Electron Transfer From Acceptor A1 to the Iron-Sulfur Clusters in Photosystem I Measured with a Time Resolution of 2 NS....Pages 495-495
Photosystem I Function and Assembly in Tobacco Chloroplast Mutants....Pages 497-502
Characterization of Photosystem I Reaction Center Complex Reconstituted into Phosphatidylcholine Liposomes; Effect of Proteolytic Enzymes on the Reaction Center Proteins....Pages 503-508
Characterisation of Transgenic Arabidopsis Plants Lacking the PSI-N Subunit of Photosystem I....Pages 509-514
The Functional Antennae Size of the Photosystem I Complex is Unaffected in Transgenic Arabidopsis Lacking PSI-H.....Pages 495-495
Overexpression and Down Regulation of PSI-G and PSI-E in Transgenic Barley (Hordeum Vulgare L.)....Pages 515-520
The Formylamino Group of Antimycin is Essential in Specifically Inhibiting Cyclic Electron Transport.....Pages 521-526
Site Directed and Suppressor Mutations of Fx Ligands in PsaB of Photosystem I in Synechocystis SP PCC 6803....Pages 527-530
Mutations in the Phylloquinone Biosynthetic Pathway: a Foreign Quinone is Recruited into the A1 Binding Site after Inactivation of the menA and menB Genes in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803....Pages 531-534
Electron Transfer From the Psac FA/FB-Clusters to External Acceptors Studied by Electrometry....Pages 535-538
Electron Transfer and Redox Equilibrium Between the Iron-Sulfur Clusters in PS I: FB is the Terminal Acceptor....Pages 539-542
Chemical Rescue of Site-Modified Ligands to the Iron-Sulfur Clusters of PsaC in Photosystem I....Pages 543-546
Back Matter....Pages 547-550
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