Cyanobacterial Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions
| Autor: | Marc M. Nowaczyk, Sascha Rexroth, Matthias Rögner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Cyanobacteria Photosystem II biology Chemistry Respiratory chain food and beverages Evolution of photosynthesis Photosynthesis biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences Synthetic biology 030104 developmental biology Thylakoid Biophysics 010606 plant biology & botany Photosystem |
| Zdroj: | Modern Topics in the Phototrophic Prokaryotes ISBN: 9783319513638 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-51365-2_5 |
| Popis: | Cyanobacterial photosynthesis can be regarded as the blueprint for the photosynthesis of green algae and higher plants: While most of the principal reactions on the molecular level are preserved, their structural arrangement is compact and intimately connected with the respiratory chain. This allows conclusions on the evolution of special functional membrane domains which finally lead to separate membranes in specialized organelles. The robustness of some cyanobacterial—especially thermophilic—strains also allowed their isolation and structural and functional characterization up to the molecular level while keeping their full activity. This is especially true for the X-ray structures with highest available resolution of photosystems 1 and 2 and the cyt b 6 f complex. Due to the ease of transformation, generated cyanobacterial mutants can be used for elucidating photosynthesis-related cellular processes which—if combined with synthetic biology approaches—can be harnessed for light-triggered biotechnological processes such as biofuel or fine chemical production. |
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