Lectures & Presentations

Intro lectures on

• electron transfer
• respiratory electron transfer
• coupling to ATP synthesis
• oxygenic photosynthesis
• Calvin cycle (CO2 fixation)

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Presentations

Paracoccus electron transport chain (1/30/07)

NADH dehydrogenase (Hough)

Succinate dehydrogenase (Wargo)

Cytochrome oxidase

Comparison with mitochondrial enzyme (Manolakis)

Electron transport & proton pumping (Reifschneider)

N-oxide respiration & denitrification (2/1/07)

Intro to respiration of N-oxides (Redding)

Nitrate reductases (Bullock)

Nitrite reductases (Yarlagadda)

Nitric oxide reductase (Redding)

Nitrous oxide reductase (Luthra)

Chloroflexus auranticus (2/6/07)

Intro to Chloroflexus: RC & chlorosomes (Redding)

Hydroxyproprionate pathway (Yarlagadda) – Strauss paper

Use of glyoxylate in bicyclic pathway (Wargo) – Herter paper

Chlorobium tepidum (2/8/07)

Intro to Chlorobium: RC & reverse TCA cycle (Redding)

Citrate lyase (Luthra)

Role of ferredoxin (Hough)

Ferredoxon:NADP oxidoreductase (Manolakis, 3/6/07)

Rhodobacter sphaeroides (2/15/07)

Intro to purple bacteria (Redding)

Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (2/20/07-2/27/07)

Intro to Acidithiobacillus: aerobic oxidation of Fe(II) and sulfur compounds (Redding)

Sulfide:quinone oxidoreductase and thiosulfate:quinone oxidoreductase (Bullock)

Sulfur dioxygenase (Yarlagadda) – Rohwerder paper

Uptake hydrogenases (Reifschnieder)

Desulfobacterium, Geobacter, Nitrosomonas (3/6/07–3/8/07)

Intro to Desulfobacterium and Geobacter (Redding)

Intro to Nitrosomonas & Nitrobacter (Redding)

Sulfite reductase (Manolakis)

Ammonia monooxygenase (Wargo)

Hydroxylamine oxidase (Luthra)

Nitrite oxidoreductase (Hough)

Methylotrophs & Methanotrophs (3/20/07)

Intro to Methylotrophs & Methanotrophs (Redding)

Formaldehyde dehydrogenase (Yarlagadda)

Ribulose monophosphate pathway (Bullock)

Formate dehydrogenase (Yarlagadda)

Methanogens (3/22/07 & 3/29/07)

Intro to Methanogens (Redding)

Formyl methanofuran dehydrogenase (Reifschneider)

Methylene-tetrahydromathanopterin reductase (and others) (Wargo)

Methyl-Coenzyme M reductase (Dr. Eduardus Duin)

Methanol methyl transferase (Luthra)

CO dehydrogenase (Hough)

Archeoglobus & Halobacterium (4/2/07)

Intro to Archeoglobus & Halobacterium (Redding)