Metabolism, Structure and Function of Plant Tetrapyrroles: Control Mechanisms of Chlorophyll Biosynthesis and Analysis of Chlorophyll-Binding Proteins

Metabolism, Structure and Function of Plant Tetrapyrroles, Volume 91, the latest release in the Advances in Botanical Research series is a compilation of the current state-of-the-art on the topic. Chapters in this new release cover Tetrapyrrole Pigments of Photosynthetic Antennae and Reaction Centers of Higher Plants: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Functions, Molecular Mechanism of Antenna Regulation, Applications, Chlorophyll c: Synthesis, Occurrence, Light-Harvesting, Absorbance, Excitation Properties, Pigment Organization in Chlorophyll-Binding Proteins (FCP), Chlorophyll d and f: Synthesis, Occurrence, Light-harvesting, Absorbance, Excitation Properties, Pigment Organization in Chlorophyll-Binding Protein Complexes, Analysis of Chlorophyll, Precursors and Derivatives by New High-Performance Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry, and much more.

Presents the latest release in the Advances in Botanical Research seriesProvides an Ideal resource for post-graduates and researchers in the plant sciences, including botany, plant biochemistry, plant pathology and plant physiologyContains contributions from internationally recognized authorities in their respective fields

1. Studying conformational changes of proteins via single-molecule spectroscopy: Cryogenic temperatures versus room temperature Jürgen Köhler and Richard J. Cogdell 2. Structural studies on tetrapyrrole containing proteins enabled by femtosecond X-ray pulses Jan Kern, Frank Müh and Athina Zouni 3. The multifaceted regulation of 5-aminolevulinic acid synthesis. Numerous ways to control glutamyl-tRNA reductase Andreas Richter and Bernhard Grimm 4. Porphyrin and heme synthesis Tingting Fang, Bernhard Grimm and Gunhild Layer 5. Transcriptional control for the chlorophyll metabolism Koichi Kobayashi and Tatsuru Masuda 6. Posttranslational control of tetrapyrrole biosynthesis: Interacting proteins, chaperones, auxiliary factors Josephine Herbst, Daniel Hey and Bernhard Grimm 7. Chlorophyll-binding subunits of photosystem I and II: Biosynthesis, chlorophyll incorporation and assembly Josef Komenda and Roman Sobotka 8. The role of tetrapyrroles in chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signaling Matthew J. Terry and Jessica Bampton 9. Evolution and function of light-harvesting antenna in oxygenic photosynthesis Diana Kirilovsky and Claudia Büchel