Recent Advances in Phototrophic Prokaryotes

1. A New Extreme Environment for Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs: Biological Soil Crusts
Julius T. Csotonyi, Jolantha Swiderski, Erko Stackebrandt, Vladimir Yurkov

2. The Phototrophic Consortium “Chlorochromatium aggregatum” – A Model for Bacterial Heterologous Multicellularity
Jörg Overmann

3. The Ecology of Nitrogen Fixation in Cyanobacterial Mats
Lucas J. Stal, Ina Severin, H. Bolhuis

4. Nitrogen and Molybdenum Control of Nitrogen Fixation in the Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus

Bernd Masepohl, Patrick C. Hallenbeck

5. The Network of PII Signalling Protein Interactions in Unicellular Cyanobacteria
Karl Forchhammer

6. Pathway and Importance of Photorespiratory 2-Phosphoglycolate Metabolism in Cyanobacteria
Martin Hagemann, Marion Eisenhut, Claudia Hackenberg, Hermann Bauwe

7. Beyond the Genome: Functional Studies of Phototrophic Sulfur Oxidation
Thomas E. Hanson, Rachael M. Morgan-Kiss, Leong-Keat Chan, Jennifer Hiras

8. Multicellularity in a Heterocyst-Forming Cyanobacterium: Pathways for Intercellular Communication
Vicente Mariscal, Enrique Flores

9. The Photoactive Orange Carotenoid Protein and Photoprotection in Cyanobacteria
Diana Kirilovsky

10. Proteomic Analysis of the Developing Intracytoplasmic Membrane in Rhodobacter sphaeroides During Adaptation to Low Light Intensity
Kamil Woronowicz, Robert A. Niederman

11. A Glimpse into the Proteome of Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus

Ozlem Onder, Semra Aygun-Sunar, Nur Selamoglu, Fevzi Daldal

12. Phycobiliprotein Biosynthesis in Cyanobacteria: Structure and Function of Enzymes Involved in Post-translational Modification
Wendy M. Schluchter, Gaozhong Shen, Richard M. Alvey, Avijit Biswas, Nicolle A. Saunée, Shervonda R. Williams, Crystal A. Mille, Donald A. Bryant

13. The Tetrapyrrole Biosynthetic Pathway and Its Regulation in Rhodobacter capsulatus

Sébastien Zappa, Keran Li, Carl E. Bauer

14. The Gene Transfer Agent of Rhodobacter capsulatus

Molly M. Leung, Sarah M. Florizone, Terumi A. Taylor, Andrew S. Lang, J. Thomas Beatty

15. Integrative Control of Carbon, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Metabolism: The Central Role of the Calvin–Benson–Bassham Cycle
Rick Laguna, Gauri S. Joshi, Andrew W. Dangel, Amanda K. Luther, F. Robert Tabita

16. Better Living Through Cyanothece – Unicellular Diazotrophic Cyanobacteria with Highly Versatile Metabolic Systems
Louis A. Sherman, Hongtao Min, Jörg Toepel, Himadri B. Pakrasi

17. A Feasibility Study of Large-Scale Photobiological Hydrogen Production Utilizing Mariculture-Raised Cyanobacteria
Hidehiro Sakurai, Hajime Masukawa, Masaharu Kitashima, Kazuhito Inoue

18. Hydrogenases and Hydrogen Metabolism in Photosynthetic Prokaryotes
Christoph Schwarz, Zach Poss, Doerte Hoffmann, Jens Appel

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