Light transducing membranes. Structure, function, and evolution. (Proceedings of the joint Australian-American Seminar on the Evolution of Light-Trapping Biological Systems, held in Honolulu, Hawai, December 1977)

Light Transducing Membranes: Structure, Function, and Evolution covers the proceedings of a joint United States-Australia conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 1977. Organized into four parts encompassing 19 chapters, the book focuses on structural, functional, and evolutionary aspects of light energy transduction by membranes. The first part of the book explores the problems of how membrane-related biomolecules could have evolved prior to the origin of life, how amphiphiles might have become organized in lipid bilayer structures, and what mechanisms may have been available for light energy transduction. The mechanisms by which ions, lipids, and proteins interact in membrane systems are described in the next part of the book. Some chapters in the third part of the book cover the analysis of several bacterial membranes as reconstituted, light transducing systems, providing a new tool for investigating basic mechanisms. Relevant aspects of mitochondrial energy transduction are also covered. Finally, the last part presents mechanism analysis by which intact bacteria and chloroplasts interact with light energy, which represent the end product of several billion of years of evolution. Biological evolutionists, biologists, researchers, teachers, and students who are interested in various aspects of light transducing membranes will greatly benefit from this book. Content: Inside Front Cover , Page ii Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv List of Contributors , Pages ix-xi Preface , Pages xiii-xiv FORMATION OF PHOSPHOLIPIDS UNDER PRIMITIVE EARTH CONDITIONS AND THE ROLE OF MEMBRANES IN PREBIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION , Pages 1-21 , J. Oró, E. Sherwood, J. Eichberg, D. Epps ORIGIN AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF BILAYER MEMBRANES , Pages 23-59 , William R. Hargreaves, David W. Deamer PHOTOCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS OF ATP: PROTOMEMBRANES AND PROTOMETABOLISM , Pages 61-75 , Sidney W. Fox, Takashi Adachi, William Stillwell, Yoshio Ishima, Gilbert Baumann ROLE OF IONIC ENVIRONMENT ON SELF-ASSEMBLY PROPERTIES OF PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANES , Pages 77-90 , Demetrios Papahadjopoulos THE PACKING OF LIPIDS AND PROTEINS IN MEMBRANES , Pages 91-107 , Jacob Israelachvili ASSEMBLY OF VIRAL MEMBRANES , Pages 109-126 , Wallace Snipes, Alec D. Keith SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF HALOBACTERIA AND OF CHEMIOSMOTIC MECHANISMS , Pages 127-139 , Walther Stoeckenius LIPID-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS IN THE PURPLE MEMBRANE , Pages 141-155 , Patricia C. Jost, Debra A. McMillen, William D. Morgan, Walther Stoeckenius LIGHT ENERGY CONVERSION IN HALOBACTERIUM HALOBIUM CELL ENVELOPE VESICLES , Pages 157-165 , Janos K. Lanyi PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTIONS OF ENERGETIC PROCESSES IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC BACTERIA: COMPARISONS WITH GREEN PLANTS AND RESPIRATORY SYSTEMS , Pages 167-186 , Roger C. Prince, P. Leslie Dutton PROTON PUMPS AND CHANNELS: STUDIES WITH BACTERIORHODOPSIN AND A PROTEOLIPID OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATASE , Pages 187-199 , Lester Packer, Tetsuya Konishi, Richard Criddle THE CONTRIBUTION OF RECONSTITUTED PROTEIN-LIPID VESICLES TO THE ELUCIDATION OF ENERGY TRANSDUCTION MECHANISMS IN MEMBRANES , Pages 201-213 , Ivan J. Ryrie CHARGE SEPARATION, PROTON PUMPS AND THE HYDROPHOBIC REGION OF BILAYER MEMBRANES , Pages 215-231 , R.N. Robertson THE EVOLUTION OF H + TRANSPORT AND ITS ROLE IN PHOTOSYNTHETIC ENERGY TRANSDUCTION , Pages 233-251 , F. Andrew Smith, John A. Raven THE MOVEMENT OF PROTONS DURING ENERGY TRANSDUCTION IN THE CHLOROPLAST THYLAKOID MEMBRANE , Pages 253-268 , W.S. Chow, S.W. Thorne, N.K. Boardman EVOLUTION OF THE LIPID COMPONENTS OF CHLOROPLAST MEMBRANES: THE ROLE OF LIPID FLUIDITY IN MEMBRANE-ASSOCIATED REACTIONS , Pages 269-288 , David G. Bishop, William G. Nolan, Stanley R. Johns, Richard I. Willing ANALYSIS OF THE HIGH-ENERGY STATE OF CHLOROPLASTS , Pages 289-312 , A.B. HOPE PHOTOELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC MEMBRANES , Pages 313-334 , O. Hayes Griffith, Hugh M. Brown, George H. Lesch A COMPARISON OF THE SUPRAMOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC MEMBRANES OF BLUE-GREEN, RED, AND GREEN ALGAE AND OF HIGHER PLANTS , Pages 335-355 , L. Andrew Staehelin, Thomas H. Giddings, Paul Badami, William W. Krzymowski Index , Pages 357-358