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The Purple Phototrophic Bacteria

Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration

VOLUME 28

Series Editor :

GOVINDJEE

University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.

Consulting Editors :

Julian EATON-RYE, Dunedin , New Zealand

Christine H. FOYER, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.

David B. KNAFF, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.A.

Anthony L. MOORE, Brighton, U.K.

Sabeeha MERCHANT, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Krishna NIYOGI, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.

William PARSON, Seatle, Washington, U.S.A.

Agepati RAGHAVENDRA, Hyderabad, India

Gernot RENGER, Berlin, Germany

The scope of our series, beginning with volume 11, reflects the concept that photosynthesis and

respiration are intertwined with respect to both the protein complexes involved and to the entire

bioenergetic machinery of all life. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration is a book series

that provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art account of research in photosynthesis and

respiration. Photosynthesis is the process by which higher plants, algae, and certain species of

bacteria transform and store solar energy in the form of energy-rich organic molecules. These

compounds are in turn used as the energy source for all growth and reproduction in these and

almost all other organisms. As such, virtually all life on the planet ultimately depends on photosyn-

thetic energy conversion. Respiration, which occurs in mitochondrial and bacterial membranes,

utilizes energy present in organic molecules to fuel a wide range of metabolic reactions critical for

cell growth and development. In addition, many photosynthetic organisms engage in energetically

wasteful photorespiration that begins in the chloroplast with an oxygenation reaction catalyzed

by the same enzyme responsible for capturing carbon dioxide in photosynthesis. This series of

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season long production, from the photophysics of reaction centers, through the electrochemistry

of intermediate electron transfer, to the physiology of whole organisms, and from X-ray crystallog-

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Phototrophic Bacteria

Edited by

C. Neil Hunter

University of Sheffield,

United Kingdom

Fevzi Daldal

University of Pennsylvania,

USA

Marion C. Thurnauer

Argonne National Laboratory,

USA

and

J. Thomas Beatty

University of British Columbia,

Canada

The Purple

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008932524

ISBN 978-1-4020-8814-8 (HB)

ISBN 978-1-4020-8815-5 (e-book)

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Cover: Four aspects of purple phototrophic bacteria, from one of their habitats through to atomic resolution structures, are

superimposed on a map derived from the genome sequence of Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009 supplied by Professor

Caroline Harwood, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Top left. Purple sulfur bacteria ( Amoebobacter purpureus ) on the shoreline of Mahoney Lake, British Columbia, Canada. Image

from Professor J.T. Beatty.

Top right. Rhodobacter capsulatus streaked out on an agar plate. Image from Professor J.T. Beatty.

Bottom right. Model of a spherical chromatophore vesicle from Rhodobacter sphaeroides constructed by the in silico combination

of atomic force microscopy, linear dichroism, electron microscopy, and X-ray crystallography data. Image from Dr. Melih Sener

and Professor Klaus Schulten, prepared using VMD (Humphrey et al. (1996) J Mol Graphics 14: 33–38).

Bottom left. Structure of the reaction center complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides showing the subunits and the pathway of

electron transfer between cofactors. See Fig. 1, Chapter 20. Image from Professor Colin Wraight, prepared using VMD.

The camera ready text was prepared by Lawrence A. Orr, Center for Bioenergy & Photosynthesis, Arizona State University,

Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, USA.

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