Ebook: Regulation of Photosynthesis

The progress in photosynthesis research has been transduction and expression of photosynthetic genes quite dramatic during the last two decades. The which occur both in the nuclear/cytosol compartment Nobel prizes awarded to Peter Mitchel (1978), to and in the chloroplast. Several chapters are devoted Johannes Deisenhofer, Hartmut Michel and Robert to the transcription machinery and the two plastid Huber (1988), to Rudolf Marcus (1992) and to Paul RNA-polymerase complexes, to the regulation of Boyer and John Walker (1997) have recognized— photosynthesis genes by redox signaling both in directly or indirectly—the structural or mechanistic chloroplasts and in the prokaryotic systems, as well discoveries related to the photosynthetic energy as to the sugar sensing mechanisms. Chapters also conversion. Actually, photosynthesis may be the first cover important regulatory aspects imposed by po- biological process described, not only in molecular transcriptional modifications and degradation of terms, but even in atomic terms. mRNA molecules, and the translational regulation Much of the excitement around photosynthesis is mechanisms operating in chloroplasts. based upon the connection between light and life. Part III—Biogenesis, turnover and senescence— is closely connected to the question of regulation. Light is an elusive ‘substrate’ that cannot be handled The chapters included emphasize how the c- in the same way as conventional chemical substrates plicated membrane structures, composed of both in biological metabolic reactions.

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The book covers the expression of photosynthesis related genes including regulation both at transcriptional and translational levels. Biogenesis, turnover and senescence of thylakoid pigment protein complexes are reviewed and some crucial regulatory steps in carbon metabolism are highlighted. The stress and acclimation responses in chloroplasts are examined at molecular level. The book also provides examples of novel methods for studies of photosynthetic regulation.

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The book covers the expression of photosynthesis related genes including regulation both at transcriptional and translational levels. Biogenesis, turnover and senescence of thylakoid pigment protein complexes are reviewed and some crucial regulatory steps in carbon metabolism are highlighted. The stress and acclimation responses in chloroplasts are examined at molecular level. The book also provides examples of novel methods for studies of photosynthetic regulation.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-CP-7
Thylakoid Biogenesis and Dynamics: The Result of a Complex Phylogenetic Puzzle....Pages 1-28
Plastid RNA Polymerases in Higher Plants....Pages 29-49
Phytochrome and Regulation of Photosynthetic Gene Expression....Pages 51-66
Regulating Synthesis of the Purple Bacterial Photosystem....Pages 67-83
Redox Regulation of Photosynthetic Genes....Pages 85-107
Sugar Sensing and Regulation of Photosynthetic Carbon Metabolism....Pages 109-120
Editing, Polyadenylation and Degradation of mRNA in the Chloroplast....Pages 121-136
Regulation of Chloroplast Translation....Pages 137-151
Proteins Involved in Biogenesis of the Thylakoid Membrane....Pages 153-175
Peptidyl-prolyl Isomerases and Regulation of Photosynthetic Functions....Pages 177-193
Role of the Plastid Envelope in the Biogenesis of Chloroplast Lipids....Pages 195-218
Pigment Assembly—Transport and Ligation....Pages 219-233
Chlorophyll Biosynthesis—Metabolism and Strategies of Higher Plants to Avoid Photooxidative Stress....Pages 235-252
Transport of Metals: A Key Process in Oxygenic Photosynthesis....Pages 253-264
Chloroplast Proteases and Their Role in Photosynthesis Regulation....Pages 265-276
Senescence and Cell Death in Plant Development: Chloroplast Senescence and its Regulation....Pages 277-297
Dynamics of Photosynthetic CO2 Fixation: Control, Regulation and Productivity....Pages 297-312
Chloroplastic Carbonic Anhydrases....Pages 313-320
Thioredoxin and Glutaredoxin: General Aspects and Involvement in Redox Regulation....Pages 321-330
The Structure and Function of the Ferredoxin/Thioredoxin System in Photosynthesis....Pages 331-361
Reversible Phosphorylation in the Regulation of Photosynthetic Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase in C4 Plants....Pages 363-375
Photodamage and D1 Protein Turnover in Photosystem II....Pages 377-393
Phosphorylation of Photosystem II Proteins....Pages 395-418
Novel Aspects on the Regulation of Thylakoid Protein Phosphorylation....Pages 419-432
Enzymes and Mechanisms for Violaxanthin-zeaxanthin Conversion....Pages 433-452
The PsbS Protein: A Cab-protein with a Function of Its Own....Pages 453-467
Redox Sensing of Photooxidative Stress and Acclimatory Mechanisms in Plants....Pages 469-486
The Elip Family of Stress Proteins in the Thylakoid Membranes of Pro- and Eukaryota....Pages 487-505
Regulation, Inhibition and Protection of Photosystem I....Pages 507-531
Regulation of Photosynthetic Electron Transport....Pages 533-555
Functional Genomics in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803: Resources for Comprehensive Studies of Gene Function and Regulation....Pages 557-561
Back Matter....Pages 563-592
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