Bioenergetics Energy Conservation and Conversion /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schäfer, Günter (Editor), Penefsky, Harvey S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, 45
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Microbiology.; Plant physiology.; Animal physiology.; Life Sciences.; Cell Biology.; Biochemistry, general.; Plant Physiology.; Animal Physiology.

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 res...

Table of Contents:

• Diversity of the Heme–Copper Superfamily in Archaea: Insights from Genomics and Structural Modeling
• Structure of Photosystems I and II
• Microbial Rhodopsins: Scaffolds for Ion Pumps, Channels, and Sensors
• Life Close to the Thermodynamic Limit: How Methanogenic Archaea Conserve Energy
• ATP Synthesis by Decarboxylation Phosphorylation
• The Three Families of Respiratory NADH Dehydrogenases
• Hydrogenases and H+-Reduction in Primary Energy Conservation
• A Structural Perspective on Mechanism and Function of the Cytochrome bc 1 Complex
• Regulatory Mechanisms of Proton-Translocating FOF1-ATP Synthase.