The Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Molecular Evolution and Taxonomy of the Cyanobacteria

   • Annick Wilmotte

   Pages 1-25

3. The Oceanic Cyanobacterial Picoplankton

   • Noel G. Carr, Nicholas H. Mann

   Pages 27-48

4. Prochlorophytes: The ‘Other’ Cyanobacteria?

   • Hans C. P. Matthijs, Georg W. M. van der Staay, Luuc R. Mur

   Pages 49-64

5. Molecular Biology of Cyanelles

   • Wolfgang Löffelhardt, Hans J. Bohnert

   Pages 65-89

6. Chloroplast Origins and Evolution

   • Susan E. Douglas

   Pages 91-118

7. Supramolecular Membrane Organization

   • Elisabeth Gantt

   Pages 119-138

8. Phycobilisome and Phycobiliprotein Structures

   • Walter A. Sidler

   Pages 139-216

9. The Use of Cyanobacteria in the Study of the Structure and Function of Photosystem II

   • Bridgette A. Barry, Renee J. Boerner, Julio C. de Paula

   Pages 217-257

10. The Cytochrome b6f Complex

    • Toivo Kallas

    Pages 259-317

11. Photosystem I in Cyanobacteria

    • John H. Golbeck

    Pages 319-360

12. The F-type ATPase in Cyanobacteria: Pivotal Point in the Evolution of a Universal Enzyme

    • Wayne D. Frasch

    Pages 361-380

13. Soluble Electron Transfer Catalysts of Cyanobacteria

    • Larry Z. Morand, R. Holland Cheng, David W. Krogmann, Kwok Ki Ho

    Pages 381-407

14. Cyanobacterial Respiration

    • G. Schmetterer

    Pages 409-435

15. The Biochemistry and Molecular Regulation of Carbon Dioxide Metabolism in Cyanobacteria

    • F. Robert Tabita

    Pages 437-467

16. Physiological and Molecular Studies on the Response of Cyanobacteria to Changes in the Ambient Inorganic Carbon Concentration

    • Aaron Kaplan, Rakefet Schwarz, Judy Lieman-Hurwitz, Michal Ronen-Tarazi, Leonora Reinhold

    Pages 469-485

17. Assimilatory Nitrogen Metabolism and Its Regulation

    • Enrique Flores, Antonia Herrero

    Pages 487-517

18. Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Tetrapyrrole Pigments: Hemes, Chlorophylls, and Phycobilins

    • Samuel I. Beale

    Pages 519-558

19. Carotenoids in Cyanobacteria

    • Joseph Hirschberg, Daniel Chamovitz

    Pages 559-579

20. Genetic Analysis of Cyanobacteria

    • Teresa Thiel

    Pages 581-611

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 wasaffected 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.

• Assimilat
• Chloroplast
• Expression
• Tetrapyrrole
• Transport
• biotechnology
• gene expression
• nitrogen
• photosynthesis
• physiology
• regulation

`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)

• Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

  Donald A. Bryant

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