Antennas and reaction centers of photosynthetic bacteria : structure, interactions, and dynamics : proceedings of an international workshop, Feldafing, Bavaria, F.R.G., March 23-25, 1985

I Antennas: Structure and Energy Transfer.- Structure of Antenna Polypeptides.- The Crystal and Molecular Structure of C-Phycocyanin.- C-Phycocyanin from Mastigocladus laminosus. Isolation and Properties of Subunits and Small Aggregates.- Picosecond Time-Resolved, Polarized Fluorescence Decay of Phycobilisomes and Constituent Biliproteins Isolated from Mastigocladus laminosus.- Fluorescence Behaviour of Crystallized C-Phycocyanin (Trimer) from Mastigocladus laminosus.- Energy-Transfer Kinetics in Phycobilisomes.- Exciton State and Energy Transfer in Bacterial Membranes: The Role of Pigment-Protein Cyclic Unit Structures.- Carotenoid-Bacteriochlorophyll Interactions.- Bacteriochlorophyll a- and c-Protein Complexes from Chlorosomes of Green Sulfur Bacteria Compared with Bacteriochlorophyll c Aggregates in CH2C12-Hexane.- Reverse-Phase High-Performance Liquid Chromatography of Antenna Pigment- and Chlorosomal Proteins of Chloroflexus aurantiacus.- Fluorescence-Detected Magnetic Resonance of the Antenna Bacteriochlorophyll Triplet States of Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria.- High-Resolution 1H NMR of Light-Harvesting Chlorophyll- Proteins.- Crystallization and Linear Dichroism Measurements of the B800- 850 Antenna Pigment-Protein Complex from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides 2.4.1.- Crystallization of the B800-850-complex from Rhodopseudomonas acidophila Strain 7750.- Linear Dichroism (LD) and Absorption Spectra of Crystals of B800-850 Light-Harvesting Complexes of Rhodopseudomonas capsulata.- II Reaction Centers: Structure and Interactions.- The Crystal Structure of the Photosynthetic Reaction Center from Rhodopseudomonas viridis.- Single Crystals from Reaction Centers of Rhodopseudomonas viridis Studied by Polarized Light.- On the Analysis of Optical Spectra of Rhodopseudomonas viridis Reaction Centers.- Orientation of the Chromophores in the Reaction Center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis. Comparison of Low-Temperature Linear Dichroism Spectra with a Model Derived from X-Ray Crystallography.- Calculations of Spectroscopic Properties of Bacterial Reaction Centers.- On the Temperature-Dependence of the Long Wavelength Fluorescence and Absorption of Rhodopseudomonas viridis Reaction Centers.- Local Environments of Pigments in Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria from Resonance Raman Data.- The Spin-Polarization Pattern of the ?m = 1 Triplet EPR Spectrum of Rps. viridis Reaction Centers.- Triplet State Investigation of Charge Separation and Symmetry in Single Crystals of R. viridis Reaction Centers.- Triplet-minus-Singlet Absorbance Difference Spectroscopy of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers by Absorbance-Detected Magnetic Resonance.- ENDOR Studies of the Primary Donor in Bacterial Reaction Centers.- ENDOR of Semiquinones in RCs from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides.- Photoinduced Charge Separation in Bacterial Reaction Centers Investigated by Triplets and Radical Pairs.- Spin Dipolar Interactions of Radical Pairs in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers.- Protein/Lipid Interaction of Reaction Center and Antenna Proteins.- The Architecture of Photosystem II in Plant Photosynthesis. Which Peptide Subunits Carry the Reaction Center of PS II?.- III Electron-Transfer: Theory and Model Systems.- Application of Electron-Transfer Theory to Several Systems of Biological Interest.- Effects of Distance, Energy and Molecular Structure on Long- Distance Electron-Transfer Between Molecules.- Ultrafast Electron Transfer in Biomimetic Models of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers.- Electron Transfer Through Aromatic Spacers in Bridged Electron- Donor-Acceptor Molecules.- Electron Transfer in Rigidly Linked Donor-Acceptor Systems.- Electron Conduction Along Aliphatic Chains.- IV Reaction Centers: Structure and Dynamics.- Kinetics and Mechanisms of Initial Electron-Transfer Reactions in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides Reaction Centers.- Femtosecond Studies of the Reaction Center of Rhodopseudomonas viridis: The Very First Dynamics of the Electron-Transfer Processes.- Analysis of Time-resolved Fluorescence of Rhodopseudomonas viridis Reaction Centers.- The Characterization of the QA Binding Site of the Reaction Center of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides..- V Model Systems on Structure of Antennas and Reaction Centers.- Structure and Energetics in Reaction Centers and Semi-synthetic Chlorophyll Protein Complexes.- Small Oligomers of Bacteriochlorophylls as in vitro Models for the Primary Electron Donors and Light-Harvesting Pigments in Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria.- Experimental, Structural and Theoretical Models of Bacteriochlorophylls a, d and g..- ENDOR Characterization of Hydrogen-Bonding to Immobilized Quinone Anion Radicals.- Concluding Remarks. Some Aspects of Energy Transfer in Antennas and Electron Transfer in Reaction Centers of Photosynthetic Bacteria.- Index of Contributors.