Biophysical Chemistry of Dioxygen Reactions in Respiration and Photosynthesis: Proceedings of the Nobel Conference held at Fiskebäckskil, Sweden, 1–4 July 1987

by Edited by Tore Vänngård

• ISBN13: 9780521107051
• ISBN10: 0521107059
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Life depends to a large extent on the solar-energy driven production of oxygen by green plants via the process of photosynthesis and the consumption of oxygen by animals and plants during respiration. Central to these processes are electron-transfer reactions. In respiration, dioxygen is reduced to water by the catalysis of cytochrome c oxidase, whereas in photosynthesis what might be considered the reverse process occurs, namely oxygen is produced via the reactions in Photosystem II. Originally published in 1988, this book brings together research on this important field by prominent experts. It contains separate review chapters on dioxygen chemistry and cytochrome oxidase, experimental and theoretical papers on electron transfer and a wealth of further information on the details of oxygen chemistry in biology. Scientists working in the fields of respiration and photosynthesis will find this book of great interest, as will anyone else who is interested in these fundamental biological processes.

Table of Contents

Preface

List of participants

Dedication

The where, the when, the how and the why of biological oxygen reactions

Distance dependence in biological electron transfer. Theoretical aspects

Long-range electron transfer in metal-substituted myoglobins

Magnetic interaction in ribonucleotide reductase

Respiration:

From Indophenol oxidase and atmungsferment of proton pumping cytochrome oxidase aa3, CuA CuB(CuC)ZnMg

The rapid and slow forms of cytochrome oxidase

Electron-transfer reactions in cytochrome c oxidase

The reactions between the carbon monoxide complex of cytochrome c oxidase and oxygen: an investigation of electron transfer between the functional units of cytochrome c oxidase

Early molecular events in the reaction of fully-reduced chytochrome oxidase with oxygen at room temperature

Mechanism of cell respiration. Properties of individual reaction steps in the catalysis of dioxygen reduction by cytochrome oxidase Mårten Wilkström

The cytochrome caa3 from Thermus thermophilus

A di-haem cytochrome c peroxidase (Pseudomonas aeruginosa): its activation and catalytic cycle Colin Greenwood

Photosynthesis:

Spectroscopic studies of manganese involvement in photosynthetic oxygen evolution

Ligand-substitution reactions of the O2-evolving center of photosystem II

The spectroscopically derived structure of the manganese site for photosyntheric water oxidization and a proposal for the protein-binding sites for calcium and manganese

On the mechanism of photosynthetic water oxidation to dioxygen

Protolytic reactions of the photosynthetic water oxidase in the absence and in the presence of added ligands

Characterization of the tyrosine radical involved in photosynthetic oxygen evolution Bridgetter

S-state formation after Ca2+ depletion in the photosystem II oxygen evolving complex

Postscript

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