Vol. 9 Supplement 2004

W. MEJBAUM-KATZENELLENBOGEN'S MOLECULAR BIOLOGY SEMINARS

10. STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND REGULATION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC PROTEINS

MAY 27 - 30, 2004
WROCŁAW/BIELAWA, POLAND

CONFERENCE SUPPORTED BY:

· MINISTRY OF NATIONAL EDUCATION AND SPORT
· UNIVERSITY OF WROCŁAW
· POLISH NETWORK FOR MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY

Volume 9 (2004) pp 8-82
Invited Lectures
Abstracts List SUBUNIT TURNOVER, REPAIR AND BIOGENESIS OF PHOTOSYSTEM II COMPLEXES
Eva-Mari Aro, Marjaana Suorsa, Anne Rokka, Yagut Allahverdiyeva and Natalia Battchikova -[Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów] p8

RUBISCO FROM THERMOPHILIC CYANOBACTERIA Thermosynechococcus elongatus
Rafał Bartoszewski, Günter F. Wildner, Jarosław Króliczewski and Andrzej Szczepaniak -[Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów] p12

SOME UNEXPECTED ASPECTS IN THE X-RAY STRUCTURE OF THE CYTOCHROME b6f COMPLEX
William A. Cramer, Huamin Zhang, Jiusheng Yan, Genji Kurisua and Janet L. Smith - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p14

AN EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS OF CYTOCHROME c6 AT THE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL LEVEL
Miguel A. De La Rosa, Fernando P. Molina-Heredia, Berta De La Cerda, Antonio Díaz--Quintana, JosĂ© A. Navarro and Manuel Hervás - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p15

THE ROLE OF PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL IN OLIGOMERIZATION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTERS
Ildikó Domonkos, Przemysław Malec, Anna Sallai, László Kovács,-Isamu Sakurai, Kazimierz Strzałka, Hajime Wada, Shigeru Itoh and Zoltán Gombos - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p17

LENGTH, TIME AND ENERGY SCALES IN PHOTOSYSTEMS AND OXIDORE-DUCTASES
P. Leslie Dutton, Christopher C. Page, Dror Noy, Artur Osyczka and Christopher C. Moser -[Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów] p19

THERMO-OPTICALLY DRIVEN REORGANIZATIONS IN LIGHT HARVESTING ANTENNAE
Győző Garab - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p21

BREAKING BIOLOGICAL SYMMETRY IN MEMBRANE PROTEINS: HOW PsaC EVOLVED TO ORIENT ASYMMETRICALLY ON THE PHOTOSYSTEM I CORE
John H. Golbeck, Mikhail L. Antonkine and Dietmar Stehlik -[Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów] p24

TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF ISOMERIZATION OF VIOLAXANTHIN IN THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENT-PROTEIN COMPLEXES
Wiesław I. Gruszecki, Dariusz Niedźwiedzki, Wojciech Grudziński and Zbigniew

Krupa -[Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów] p29

THYLAKOID MEMBRANES IN CHLOROPLASTS: BIOGENETIC COMPLEXITY WITH PHYLOGENETIC ROOTS
Reinhold G. Herrmann, Anna Sokolenko and Joerg Meurer - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p30

A PROTEASE DEGRADING LHCB3 POLYPEPTIDE IN SENESCENCE-RELATED MANNER
Grzegorz Jackowski and Agnieszka Żelisko - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p31

REVERSE GENETICS OF THE PLANT LIGHT HARVESTING ANTENNA
Stefan Jansson, Jenny Andersson, Ulrika Ganeteg, Frank Klimmek, Carsten KĂĽlheim, Egbert Boekema, Jan Dekker, Peter Horton and Jon Agren -[Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów] p34

CYCLIC ELECTRON FLOW IN PLANTS
Pierre Joliot -[Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów] p35

NATURE OF REVERSIBLE REDOX ENERGY COUPLING IN CYTOCHROME bc1
Artur Osyczka, Christopher C. Moser, Fevzi Daldal and P. Leslie Dutton -[Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów] p36

MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE RIESKE IRON-SULFUR PROTEIN AND THE CYTOCHROME bf COMPLEX QUINONE-REDUCTASE SITE
Yexin Ouyang, Richard Grebe, Lian-Wang Guo, Darryl Horn, Matthew Nelson, Qingjun Wang, John Whitmarsh, Giovanni Finazzi, Claudia Facciotti, Francis-Andre Wollman, Catherine De Vitry and Toivo Kallas - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p38

MECHANISTIC CONSIDERATIONS ON COUPLING OF ELECTRON AND PROTRON TRANSFER REACTIONS AND THE ACTIVE ROLE OF THE PROTEIN MATRIX IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC OXIDATIVE WATER CLEAVAGE
Gernot Renger, Philipp Kühn and Hann-Jörg Eckert - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p43

THE BIOCHEMICAL AND FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES OF THYLAKOID PROTEIN COMPLEXES FROM MESOPHYLL AND BUNDLE SHEATH CHLOROPLASTS OF THREE TYPES OF C4 PLANTS
Elżbieta Romanowska, Anna Drożak, Berenika Pokorska and Borys Kierdaszuk - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p45

MIGRATION OF GENES FROM ORGANELLES TO THE NUCLEUS: THE CASE OF TWO GENES ENCODING PHOTOSYNTHETIC MEMBRANE PROTEINS OF Euglena gracilis
José Luis Santillán-Torres, Ariane Atteia, M. Gonzalo Claros, Andrzej Szczepaniak and Diego González-Halphen - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p48

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PETC GENE FAMILY IN THE CYANOBACTE-RIUM Synechocystis PCC 6803
Dirk Schneider, Thomas Volkmer, Stephan Berry, Andreas Seidler and Matthias Rögner -[Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów] p51

RUBISCO ACTIVITY MAINTENACE IN ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS CONDITIONS - HOW MANY STRATEGIES?
Anna Siedlecka and Zbigniew Krupa - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p56

MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF VIOLAXANTHIN DE-EPOXIDATION IN THE XANTHOPHYLL CYCLE AND ITS REGULATION BY MEMBRANE FLUIDITY
Kazimierz Strzałka, Dariusz Latowski, Jerzy Kruk and Kvetoslava Burda - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p58

THE ROLE OF CAROTENE AND TOCOPHEROL IN THE REACTION CENTER OF PHOTOSYSTEM II
Achim Trebst - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p59

HEME DEFORMATION AND A NOVEL HEME-ASSISTED NITROSILATION OF A THIOLATE LIGAND IN NITROPHORINS FROM BLOOD-SUCKING INSECTS
Andrzej Weichsel, Estelle M. Maes, F. Ann Walker and William R. Montfort -[Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów] p60

EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION OF RUBISCO SPECIFICITY TOWARD CARBOXYLATION OF RuBP
Günter F. Wildner and Jürgen Schlitter - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p61

   
Oral>and Poster Communications
Abstracts List PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CYANOBACTERIAL CYTOCHROME b6f COMPLEXES: INDICATIONS FOR A NEW SUBUNIT
Melanie Ambill, Meike Gendrullis, Thomas Volkmer, Regina Oworah-Nkruma, Dirk Schneider and Matthias Rögner - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p64

MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF COPPER TOXICITY ON ELECTRON TRANSFER THROUGH PHOTOSYSTEM II
Květoslava Burda, Jerzy Kruk, Kazimierz Strzałka, Georg H. Schmid and Olaf Kruse - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p65

A METHOD FOR INVESTIGATING THE PROPAGATION OF MOTIONS OF REMOTE SURFACE RESIDUES INTO THE BURIED CATALYTIC SITE OF RUBISCO BY MOLECULAR DYNAMICS
Christian Burisch and Jürgen Schlitter - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p67

CYTOCHROME c6 OR PLASTOCYANIN ARE STRICTLY REQUIRED FOR THE FUNCTIONING OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND RESPIRATION IN Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Raúl V. Durán, Manuel Hervás, Miguel A. De La Rosa and José A. Navarro - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p68

ALTERNATIVE PATHWAYS OF ELECTRON DONATION TO PHOTOSYSTEM I IN CYANOBACTERIUM Synechocystis AND IN BARLEY LEAVES
Elena A. Egorova, Nikolai G. Bukhov, Marina G. Rakhimberdieva, Igor A. Stadnichuk and Navassard V. Karapetyan - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p69

CHLOROPLAST STRUCTURE, CHLOROPHYLL-PROTEIN COMPLEXES AND POLYPEPTIDE COMPOSITION IN PLANTS WITH DIFFERENT SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DARK-CHILLING STRESS
Maciej Garstka, Izabela Adamczyk, Małgorzata Rosiak, Jan Henk Venema, Borys Kierdaszuk, Anna Drożak, Philip R. Van Hasselt, Agnieszka Mostowska and Katarzyna Gieczewska - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p70

Escherichia coli AS A MODEL IN TARGETING THYLAKOID PROTEIN, CYTOCHROME b6, INTO THE MEMBRANE
Katarzyna Hombek-Urban, Jarosław Króliczewski and Andrzej Szczepaniak - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p71

THE PSBH PROTEIN IS BOUND TO CP47 PRIOR TO ITS ATTACHMENT TO THE D1-D2 HETERODIMER DURING ASSEMBLY OF PHOTOSYSTEM II COMPLEX IN THE CYANOBACTERIUM Synechocystis PCC 6803
Josef Komenda, Julie Benešová and Martin Tichý - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p73

INSERTION OF CYTOCHROME b6 DERIVATIVES INTO MEMBRANE BY THE BACTERIAL SEC-DEPENDENT PROTEIN TRANSPORT SYSTEM
Jarosław Króliczewski and Andrzej Szczepaniak - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p74

33 KDA PROTEIN OF PHOTOSYSTEM II IS A LOW-AFFINITY CALCIUM- AND LANTHANIDES-BINDING PROTEIN
Jerzy Kruk, Kvetoslava Burda, Małgorzata Jemioła-Rzemiłska and Kazimierz Strzałka - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p76

THE Synechocystis FTSH PROTEASE SLR0228 IS INVOLVED IN THE CONTROL OF SELECTIVE D1 TURNOVER AS WELL AS CELLULAR LEVEL OF UNASSEMBLED CP47 AND D2.
Stanislava Kuviková, Josef Komenda, Peter Nixon and Martin Tichý - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p77

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CYANOBACTERIA IN THE KINETIC MECHANISM OF PHOTOSYSTEM I REDUCTION BY CYTOCHROME c6 ARE MAINLY DETERMINED BY THE HEME-PROTEIN
José A. Navarro, Cheryl A. Kerfeld, David W. Krogmann, Miguel A. De La Rosa and Manuel Hervás - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p78

BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF A NEW '˜HIS-TAG-PS2-PREPARATION' FROM Thermosynechococcus elongatus
Marc Nowaczyk, Melanie Ambill, Julia Lax, Regina Oworah-Nkruma, Alexander Prodöhl and Matthias Rögner - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p79

CARBOXYLASE AND OXYGENASE ACTIVITY OF RUBISCO IN HEAVY METALS STRESS CONDITIONS - A PRELIMINARY STUDY
Anna Siedlecka, Ewa Janik and Zbigniew Krupa - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p80

INTERACTION BETWEEN CYTOCHROME b6f COMPLEX AND PLASTOCYANIN - SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES Agnieszka Sujak, Friedel Drepper and Wolfgang Haehnel - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p81
COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF TWO CYTOCHROMES c6 FROM CYANO-BACTERIA Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002
Kamil Tamioła and Andrzej Szczepaniak - [Rozmiar: 1332 bajtów]p82