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Part I  Diversity and Ecology
1  A New Extreme Environment for Aerobic Anoxygenic
   Phototrophs: Biological Soil Crusts .......................... 3
   Julius T. Csotonyi, Jolantha Swiderski, Erko Stackebrandt,
   and Vladimir Yurkov
2  The Phototrophic Consortium "Chlorochromatium aggregatum"
   - A Model for Bacterial Heterologous Multicellularity ....... 15
   Jörg Overmann
3  The Ecology of Nitrogen Fixation in Cyanobacterial Mats ..... 31
   Lucas J. Stal, Ina Severin, and H. Bolhuis
Part II Physiology, Metabolism, and Global Responses
4  Nitrogen and Molybdenum Control of Nitrogen Fixation
   in the Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus ........ 49
   Bernd Masepohl and Patrick C. Hallenbeck
5  The Network of РII Signalling Protein Interactions in 
   Unicellular Cyanobacteria ................................... 71
   Karl Forchhammer
6  Pathway and Importance of Photorespiratory 
   2-Phosphoglycolate Metabolism in Cyanobacteria .............. 91
   Martin Hagemann, Marion Eisenhut, Claudia Hackenberg, and
   Hermann Bauwe
7  Beyond the Genome: Functional Studies of Phototrophic
   Sulfur Oxidation ........................................... 109
   Thomas E. Hanson, Rachael M. Morgan-Kiss, Leong-Keat
   Chan, and Jennifer Hiras
8  Multicellularity in a Heterocyst-Forming Cyanobacterium:
   Pathways for Intercellular Communication ................... 123
   Vicente Mariscal and Enrique Flores
Part III  Bioenergetics, Proteins, and Genomics
9  The Photoactive Orange Carotenoid Protein and
   Photoprotection in Cyanobacteria ........................... 139
   Diana Kirilovsky
10 Proteomic Analysis of the Developing Intracytoplasmic
   Membrane in Rhodobacter sphaeroides During Adaptation
   to Low Light Intensity ..................................... 161
   Kamil Woronowicz and Robert A. Niederman
11 A Glimpse into the Proteome of Phototrophic Bacterium
   Rhodobacter capsulatus ..................................... 179
   Ozlem Onder, Semra Aygun-Sunar, Nur Selamoglu, and Fevzi
   Daldal
12 Phycobiliprotein Biosynthesis in Cyanobacteria: Structure
   and Function of Enzymes Involved in Post-translational
   Modification ............................................... 211
   Wendy M. Schluchter, Gaozhong Shen, Richard M. Alvey,
   Avijit Biswas, Nicolle A. Saunée, Shervonda R. Williams,
   Crystal A. Mille, and Donald A. Bryant
13 The Tetrapyrrole Biosynthetic Pathway and Its Regulation
   in Rhodobacter capsulatus ...................................229
   Sébastien Zappa, Keran Li, and Carl E. Bauer
Part IV Environmental Sensing and Signal Transduction
14 The Gene Transfer Agent of Rhodobacter capsulatus .......... 253
   Molly M. Leung, Sarah M. Florizone, Terami A. Taylor,
   Andrew S. Lang, and J. Thomas Beatty
15 Integrative Control of Carbon, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, and 
   Sulfur Metabolism: The Central Role of the Calvin-Benson-
   Bassham Cycle .............................................. 265
   Rick Laguna, Gauri S. Joshi, Andrew W. Dangel, Amanda 
   K. Luther, and F. Robert Tabita
Part V Applied Aspects
16 Better Living Through Cyanothece - Unicellular
   Diazotrophic Cyanobacteria with Highly Versatile
   Metabolic Systems .......................................... 275
   Louis A. Sherman, Hongtao Min, Jörg Toepel, and Himadri
   B. Pakrasi
17 A Feasibility Study of Large-Scale Photobiological 
   Hydrogen Production Utilizing Mariculture-Raised
   Cyanobacteria .............................................. 291
   Hidehiro Sakurai, Hajime Masukawa, Masaharu Kitashima,
   and Kazuhito Inoue
18 Hydrogenases and Hydrogen Metabolism in Photosynthetic
   Prokaryotes ................................................ 305
   Christoph Schwarz, Zach Poss, Doerte Hoffmann, and
   Jens Appel
Subject Index ................................................. 349
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