Bioenergetics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Diversity of the Heme–Copper Superfamily in Archaea: Insights from Genomics and Structural Modeling

   • James Hemp, Robert B. Gennis

   Pages 1-31

3. Structure of Photosystems I and II

   • Petra Fromme, Ingo Grotjohann

   Pages 33-72

4. Microbial Rhodopsins: Scaffolds for Ion Pumps, Channels, and Sensors

   • Johann P. Klare, Igor Chizhov, Martin Engelhard

   Pages 73-122

5. Life Close to the Thermodynamic Limit: How Methanogenic Archaea Conserve Energy

   • Uwe Deppenmeier, Volker Müller

   Pages 123-152

6. ATP Synthesis by Decarboxylation Phosphorylation

   • Peter Dimroth, Christoph von Ballmoos

   Pages 153-184

7. The Three Families of Respiratory NADH Dehydrogenases

   • Stefan Kerscher, Stefan Dröse, Volker Zickermann, Ulrich Brandt

   Pages 185-222

8. Hydrogenases and H+-Reduction in Primary Energy Conservation

   • Paulette M. Vignais

   Pages 223-252

9. A Structural Perspective on Mechanism and Function of the Cytochrome bc ₁ Complex

   • Carola Hunte, Sozanne Solmaz, Hildur Palsdóttir, Tina Wenz

   Pages 253-278

10. Regulatory Mechanisms of Proton-Translocating FOF1-ATP Synthase

    • Boris A. Feniouk, Masasuke Yoshida

    Pages 279-308

11. Back Matter

    Pages 309-312

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The fermentation of sugar by cell-free yeast extracts was demonstrated more than a century ago by E. Buchner (Nobel Prize 1907). Buchner’s observations put an end to previous animistic theories regarding cellular life. It became clear that metabolism and all cellular functions should be accessible to explication in chemical terms. Equally important for an understanding of living systems was the concept, explained in physical terms, that all living things could be cons- ered as energy converters [E. Schrödinger (Nobel Prize 1933)] which generate complexity at the expense of an increase in entropy in their environment. Bioenergetics was established as an essential branch of the biochemical sciences by the investigations into the chemistry of photosynthesis in i- lated plant organelles [O. Warburg (Nobel Prize 1931)] and by the discovery that mitochondria were the morphological equivalent that catalyzed cellular respiration. The ?eld of bioenergetics also encompasses a large variety of ad- tional processes such as the molecular mechanisms of muscle contraction, the structure and driving mechanisms of microbial ?agellar motors, the energetics of solute transport, the extrusion of macromolecules across membranes, the transformation of quanta of light into visual information and the maintenance of complex synaptic communications. There are many other examples which, in most cases, may perform secondary energy transformations, utilizing - ergy stored either in the cellular ATP pool or in electrochemical membrane potentials.

• ATP
• ATP Formation
• Archaea
• Ion Translocation
• Photosynthesis
• Primary Energy Conservation
• Respiratory Systems
• conservation
• microorganism
• microorganisms

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