Bioenergetics: Energy Conservation and Conversion

✍ Scribed by James Hemp, Robert B. Gennis (auth.), Günter Schäfer, Harvey S. Penefsky (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 327
• Series: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation 45
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present book addresses fundamental questions of biological energy transformation and conservation, with a focus on those processes which can now be understood on a structural basis.

Current knowledge of selected examples of the biological energy conservation machinery such as cellular oxygen respiration, light-driven energy converters, and fermentation is reviewed. The machinery is highly variable, particularly that within microorganisms, but all of these devices universally rely on one unique underlying physico-chemical principle.

The book is a rich source for specialists interested in recent developments in bioenergetics research and novices in the field alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Diversity of the Heme–Copper Superfamily in Archaea: Insights from Genomics and Structural Modeling....Pages 1-31
Structure of Photosystems I and II....Pages 33-72
Microbial Rhodopsins: Scaffolds for Ion Pumps, Channels, and Sensors....Pages 73-122
Life Close to the Thermodynamic Limit: How Methanogenic Archaea Conserve Energy....Pages 123-152
ATP Synthesis by Decarboxylation Phosphorylation....Pages 153-184
The Three Families of Respiratory NADH Dehydrogenases....Pages 185-222
Hydrogenases and H + -Reduction in Primary Energy Conservation....Pages 223-252
A Structural Perspective on Mechanism and Function of the Cytochrome bc 1 Complex....Pages 253-278
Regulatory Mechanisms of Proton-Translocating F O F 1 -ATP Synthase....Pages 279-308
Back Matter....Pages 309-312

✦ Subjects

Cell Biology; Biochemistry, general; Microbiology; Plant Physiology; Animal Physiology