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Origin and evolution of biological energy conversion

Title
Origin and evolution of biological energy conversion / edited by Herrick Baltscheffsky.
Publication
New York : VCH, [1996], ©1996.

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Baltscheffsky, Herrick.
Description
xiii, 313 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  • How did life originate and evolve? Since the 1930s, results from investigations on the molecular aspects of biological energy conversion have provided increasingly detailed knowledge about mechanisms involved in the biological transformation, coupling, conversion, and conservation of energy.
  • In more recent years, sequence data on protein, RNA, and DNA, and data on three-dimensional structures have led to a new understanding of various molecular interrelations between bacterial, plant, and animal systems.
  • Origin and Evolution of Biological Energy Conversion surveys current knowledge about how bioenergetic reactions and systems may have originated and evolved. Written by invited specialists, this volume deals with basic questions, examines recent results, and discusses the evolution of the most essential components of photosynthetic and respiratory energy conversion.
  • This book will be of interest to biologists, chemists, physicists, geologists, and science historians, as well as others who are interested in the evolution of life on earth.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 1. Energy Conversion Leading to the Origin and Early Evolution of Life: Did Inorganic Pyrophosphate Precede Adenosine Triphosphate? / Herrick Baltscheffsky -- 2. Evolution of Convertible Energy Currencies of the Living Cell: From ATP to [actual symbol not reproducible] / Vladimir P. Skulachev -- 3. Iron and Sulfur in the Origin and Evolution of Biological Energy Conversion Systems / Richard Cammack -- 4. The Evolution of Electron Transfer Proteins in Photosynthetic Bacteria and Denitrifying Pseudomonads / T. E. Meyer, J. J. Van Beeumen, R. P. Ambler and M. A. Cusanovich -- 5. From Dihydrogen to Dioxygen: Evolution of Biological Oxidation-Reduction / Robert J. P. Williams -- 6. Photosystem II and the Quinone - Iron-Containing Reaction Centers: Comparisons and Evolutionary Perspectives / A. W. Rutherford and W. Nitschke -- 7. The FeS-Type Photosystems and the Evolution of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers / W. Nitschke, T. Mattioli and A. W. Rutherford --
  • 8. Origin and Evolution of the Proton-Pumping NADH: Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase (Complex I) / Thorsten Friedrich and Hanns Weiss -- 9. Evolution and Origins of the Cytochrome bc[subscript 1] and b[subscript 6]f Complexes / P. N. Furbacher, G.-S. Tae and W. A. Cramer -- 10. Evolution of Cytochrome Oxidase / Matti Saraste, Jose Castresana, Desmond Higgins, Mathias Lubben and Matthias Wilmanns -- 11. Evolution of V- and F-ATPases / Lincoln Taiz and Nathan Nelson.
ISBN
1560816147 (alk. paper)
LCCN
96003922
OCLC
ocm34190268
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries