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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