The Purple Phototrophic Bacteria

Part 1: Physiology, Evolution and Ecology: 1 An Overview of Purple Bacteria: Systematics, Physiology, and Habitats.-2 New Light on Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs.-3 Evolutionary Relationships Among Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria and the Origin of Proteobacterial Photosynthetic Systems.- Part 2: Biosynthesis of Pigments, Cofactors and Lipids: 4 Biosynthesis of Bacteriochlorophylls in Purple Bacteria.-5 Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) Biosynthesis in the Purple Bacteria.- 6 Distribution and Biosynthesis of Carotenoids.-7 Membrane Lipid Biosynthesis in Purple Bacteria.-Part 3: Antenna Complexes: Structure, Function and Organization: 8 Peripheral Complexes of Purple Bacteria.-9 Reaction Center-Light-Harvesting Core Complexes of Purple Bacteria.-10 Structure-Function Relationships in Bacterial Light-Harvesting Complexes Investigated by Reconstitution Techniques.-11 Spectroscopic Properties of Antenna Complexes from Purple Bacteria.-12 Energy Transfer from Carotenoids to Bacteriochlorophylls.-13 Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Excitation Transfer and Trapping in Purple Bacteria.-14 Organization and Assembly of Light-Harvesting Complexes in the Purple Bacterial Membrane.-15 From Atomic-level Structure to Supramolecular Organization in the photosynthetic Unit of Purple Bacteria.-Part 4: Reaction Centre Structure and Function: 16 Structural Plasticity of Reaction Centers from Purple Bacteria.-17 Structure and Function of the Cytochrome c2:Reaction Center Complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides.-18 Directed Modification of Reaction Centers from Purple Bacteria.-19 Mechanism of Charge Separation in Purple Bacterial Reaction Centers.-20 The Acceptor Quinones of Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria- Structure and Spectroscopy.-Part 5: Cyclic Electron Transfer Components and Energy Coupling Reactions: 21 Biogenesis of c-type Cytochromes and Cytochrome Complexes.-22 Structural and Mutational Studies of the Cytochrome bc1 Complex.-23 The Cytochrome bc1and Related bc Complexes: The Rieske/Cytochrome b

C. Neil Hunter is an authority on the biosynthesis of bacteriochlorophylls, chlorophylls and carotenoids and on the assembly and organization of bacterial photosynthetic membranes. Fevzi Daldal is an authority on the structure, function, regulation, proteomics and biogenesis of membrane cytochromes in Rhodobacter species. Marion C. Thurnauer is an authority on the analysis of reaction center photochemistry by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. J. Thomas Beatty is an authority on many aspects of photosynthetic bacteria; their ecology and regulation of gene expression, as well as biochemical and functional analysis of photosynthetic complexes.

From the reviews:

"The present book contains 48 authoritative contributions from more than 100 experts on all aspects of purple phototrophic bacteria. ... will be a useful volume for guidance. In summary, this book typifies about biology, biochemistry, biophysics, genetics, eco-physiology and evolution of purple photorophic bacteria. ... This book, as rightfully claimed, shall have a long shelf-life in serving researchers, teachers and students as a reliable resource of references. We strongly recommend this book to all libraries around the world." (Prasanna Mohanty and Sujata R. Mishra, Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol. 47, September, 2009)

"Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration Series brings a new comprehensive review of Purple Phototrophic Bacteria. ... In any case the new book has all the qualities to become a new great successor of all the previous reviews of this field ... . I am confident that it will represent a new basic text on anoxygenic phototrophs for many years to come, and it will become a basic source of reference and knowledge for experienced researchers as well as for students ... ." (M. Koblízek, Photosynthetica, Vol. 47 (3), 2009)