Biophysical Chemistry of Dioxygen Reactions in Respiration and Photosynthesis

Preface; List of participants; Dedication Harry B. Gray; 1. The where, the when, the how and the why of biological oxygen reactions R. J. P. Williams; 2. Distance dependence in biological electron transfer. Theoretical aspects Sven Larson; 3. Long-range electron transfer in metal-substituted myoglobins J. A. Cowan and H. B. Gray; 4. Magnetic interaction in ribonucleotide reductase Anders Ehrenberg; Part I. Respiration: 5. From Indophenol oxidase and atmungsferment of proton pumping cytochrome oxidase aa3, CuA CuB(CuC)ZnMg Helmut Beinert; 6. The rapid and slow forms of cytochrome oxidase Graham Palmer, Gary M. Baker and Masato Moguchi; 7. Electron-transfer reactions in cytochrome c oxidase Sunney I. Chan, Stephen N. Witt and David F. Blair; 8. 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 M. T. Wilson, M. Brunori, P. Sarti, G. Antonini and F. Malatesta; 9. Early molecular events in the reaction of fully-reduced chytochrome oxidase with oxygen at room temperature Yutaka Orii; 10. Mechanism of cell respiration. Properties of individual reaction steps in the catalysis of dioxygen reduction by cytochrome oxidase Mårten Wilkström; 11. The cytochrome caa3 from Thermus thermophilus James A. Fee, Barbara H. Zimmermann, Carmen I. Nitsche, Frank Rusnak and Eckard Münck; 12. A di-haem cytochrome c peroxidase (Pseudomonas aeruginosa): its activation and catalytic cycle Colin Greenwood, Nicholas Foote, Paul M. A. Gadsby and Andrew J. Thomson; Part II. Photosynthesis: 13. Spectroscopic studies of manganese involvement in photosynthetic oxygen evolution Kenneth Sauer, R. D. Guiles, Ann E. McDermott, James L. Cole, Vittal K. Yachandra, Jean-Luc Zimmerman, Melvin P. Klein, S. L. Dexheimer and R. David Britt; 14. Ligand-substitution reactions of the O2-evolving center of photosystem II Warren F. Beck and Gary W. Brudvig; 15. The spectroscopically derived structure of the manganese site for photosyntheric water oxidization and a proposal for the protein-binding sites for calcium and manganese G. Charles Dismukes; 16. On the mechanism of photosynthetic water oxidation to dioxygen Gernot Renger; 17. Protolytic reactions of the photosynthetic water oxidase in the absence and in the presence of added ligands Verena Forster and Wolfgang Junge; 18. Characterization of the tyrosine radical involved in photosynthetic oxygen evolution Bridgetter A. Barry and Geranld T. Babcock; 19. S-state formation after Ca2+ depletion in the photosystem II oxygen evolving complex A. Boussax and A. William Rutherford; Postscript Helmut Beinert and Tore Vänngård.