The Chloroplast: From Molecular Biology to Biotechnology Book

	Dedication
	Preface
	Dinoflagellate light-harvesting proteins: genes, structure and reconstitution	3
	Organisation of the photosystem two light harvesting system	11
	Three-Dimensional structure of photosystem I: Present state of the X-ray crystallographic studies	19
	Organization and function of photosystem I trimers and monomers of the cyanobacterium Spirulina platensis	27
	Progress in the crystallization of Photosystem II components	35
	The photosynthetic apparatus of Prochloron-like cyanobacteria	41
	Phycobilisome-to-photosystem I excitation transfer is enhanced in water-depleted cells and depressed in water-replete cells of cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC7942	47
	Structural-functional organization of thylakoids in developing chloroplasts	55
	The chloroplast: part of the integrated genetic system of the plant cell	63
	Phage-type RNA polymerases in higher plants	73
	Novel in vitro transcription assay indicates that the accD NEP promoter is contained in a 19 bp fragment	79
	Polyadenylation and degradation of mRNA in the chloroplast	85
	DNA-binding proteins of chloroplast nucleoids	91
	Pigment-protein complexes, plastid development and photooxidative protection: The effects of PORA en PORB overexpression on Arabidopsis seedlings shifted from far-rad to white light	97
	Small cab-like proteins: relatives to the chlorophyll A/B binding proteins in cyanobacteria	103
	High-light induced proteins HL#2 of barley are exported to the apoplast	107
	Expression of rbcS, rbcL and rca genes during senescence and regreening of Zantedeschia Aethiopica floral spathe	113
	Expression of glutathione peroxidase during Zantedeschia Aethiopica spathe senescence and regreening	117
	Molecular effects of some stress factors on the chloroplast genetic apparatus of the flagellate Euglena gracilis	121
	Protein import across chloroplast envelopes	131
	Characterization of the Arabidopsis ppi1 mutant	137
	Isolation and characterization of Chlamydomonas mutants deficient in the plastid ycf10 open reading frame	143
	Structure and function of cem A homologue (pxcA) in cyanobacteria	149
	Import and processing of E.coli expressed polyphenol oxidase by isolated chloroplasts	155
	The Role of the envelope in assembly of light-harvesting complexes in the chloroplast: distribution of LHCP between chloroplast and vacuoles during chloroplast development in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii	161
	Characterization of the plastid import reaction of the pea NADPH: protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR)	167
	Tocopherol biosynthesis in senescing chloroplasts - A mechanism to protect envelope membranes against oxidative stress and a prerequisite for lipid remobillzation	171
	The effect of light on the biosynthesis and function of NADPH-protochloroplyffide oxidoreductases (PORs) A and B in seedlings of Arabidopsis thaliana and Hordeum vulgare	179
	Redox reactions in the last steps of chlorophyll biosynthesis	185
	Cofactor requirement of the enzymatic reduction of chlorophyll b to chlorophyll a	191
	Effects of nuclear y mutations on expression of plastid genes required for light-independent chlorophyll formation in Chlamydomonas	195
	Can Psilotum and/or Gnetum synthesise chlorophyll in darkness?	201
	Protochlorophyllide and POR in the lip 1 mutant of pea	207
	Substrate specificity of overexpressed bacteriochlorophyll synthase from Chloroflexus aurantiacus	213
	Carotenoids in higher plants and algae	217
	Abundance of photosystem I proteins in cyanobacteria and chloroplasts	227
	De novo synthesis of chlorophyll a triggers assembly of reaction centers in barley etioplasts	233
	Reconstitution of co-translational targeting of polytopic membrane proteins to the thylakoids in a homologous chloroplast translation system	237
	Aggregational states of in vitro synthesized D1 and D2 proteins	243
	The abundance of Cab and psbA transcripts and of their protein products in greening etiolated leaves transferred to darkness	247
	Chlorophyll-binding proteins in cyanobacteria	253
	Molecular cloning and characterization of ClpX, a potential regulator of chloroplastic Clp protease	259
	Light stress-activated proteases in the thylakoid humen	265
	The carboxyl-terminal processing of a precursor D1 protein of photosystem II reaction center by a nuclear-encoded protease (CtpA)	271
	Proteolytic mechanism in LHCII stabilization	277
	The regulatory role of polyamines on the structural and functional photoadaptation of the photosynthetic apparatus	283
	Alterations in the plastid membrane-associated polyamines during chloroplast photodevelopment	287
	Chlorophyll fluorescence kinetic depends on age of leaves and plants	291
	Successive degradation of the light-harvesting system of the photosynthetic apparatus during senescence of barley flag leaves	297
	Membrane proteins of photosynthesis : structure - function - biotechnology	305
	tRNA[superscript Glu] mediated [delta]-aminolevulinate biosynthesis and biotechnology	311
	A transgenic approach to characterize the plastid transcription machinery in higher plants	317
	Structure and function of the photosynthetic apparatus in transgenic tobacco	325
	Light, temperature and redox control of the development of the photosynthetic apparatus	331
	Influence of a CO[subscript 2]-partial pressure of 700 ppm on the lipid and fatty acid composition of higher plants	337
	The stabilizing effect of glycine betaine on the modified photosystem II particles under heat stress	343
	Application of thylakoids in herbicide-detecting system	347
	Author Index	351
	Subject Index	353