Includes bibliographical references and index.

Life implies work : a holistic account of our microbial biosphere focussing on the bioenergetic processes of cyanobacteria, the ecologically most successful organisms on our earth / Günter A. Peschek ... [et al.] -- The photosynthetic apparatus of the living fossil, Cyanophora paradoxa / Jürgen M. Steiner and Wolfgang Löffelhardt -- An alternate hypothesis for the origin of mitochondria / Roschen Sasikumar, Jijoy Joseph and Günter A. Peschek -- The complex regulation of the phosphate uptake system of cyanobacteria / Gernot Falkner and Renate Falkner -- The site of respiratory electron transport in cyanobacteria and its implication for the photoinhibition of respiration / Ioan I. Ardelean and Günter A. Peschek -- Nitrogenases and hydrogenases in cyanobacteria / Hermann Bothe ... [et al.] -- Hydrogen peroxide degradation in cyanobacteria / Marcel Zamocky ... [et al.] -- History and function : the respiratory and photosynthetic electron transport chains / Peter Nicholls -- Bioenergetics in a primordial cyanobacterium Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421 / Mamoru Mimuro ... [et al.] -- ATP synthase : structure, function and regulation of a complex machine / Dirk Bald -- The evolution of cyanobacteria and photosynthesis / Gerhart Drews -- Structure of cyanobacterial photosystems I and II / Petra Fromme and Ingo Grotjohann -- Mechanism of photosynthetic production and respiratory reduction of molecular dioxygen : a biophysical and biochemical comparison / Gernot Renger and Bernd Ludwig -- Photoprotection in cyanobacteria : the orange carotenoid protein and energy dissipation / Cheryl A. Kerfeld and Diana Kirilovsky -- Mn transport and the assembly of photosystem II / Eitan Salomon, Gernot Renger and Nir Keren -- Structure and physiological function of NDH-1 complexes in cyanobacteria / Natalia Battchikova, Eva-Mari Aro and Peter J. Nixon -- The superfamily of succinate:quinone oxidoreductases and its implications for the cyanobacterial enzymes / C. Roy D. Lancaster -- The water-soluble cytochromes of cyanobacteria / Kwok Ki Ho, Cheryl A. Kerfeld and David W. Krogmann -- Transient interactions between soluble electron transfer proteins. The case of plastocyanin and cytochrome f / Derek S. Bendall, Beatrix G. Schlarb-Ridley and Christopher J. Howe -- Center of the cyanobacterial electron transport network : the cytochrome b₆f complex / Gábor Bernát and Matthias Rögner -- The convergent evolution of cytochrome c₆ and plastocyanin has been driven by geochemical changes / Miguel A. De la Rosa, José A. Navarro and Manuel Hervás -- Flavodiiron proteins and their role in cyanobacteria / Vera L. Gonçalves ... [et al.] -- Cyanobacterial respiratory electron transport : heme-copper oxidases and their electron donors / Margit Bernroitner ... [et al.] -- Tools for genetic manipulation of cyanobacteria / Annegret Wilde and Dennis Dienst.