Part 1: Physiology, Evolution and Ecology: 1 An Overview of Purple Bacteria: Systematics, Physiology, and Habitats.-2 New Light on Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs.-3 Evolutionary Relationships Among Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria and the Origin of Proteobacterial Photosynthetic Systems.- Part 2: Biosynthesis of Pigments, Cofactors and Lipids: 4 Biosynthesis of Bacteriochlorophylls in Purple Bacteria.-5 Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) Biosynthesis in the Purple Bacteria.- 6 Distribution and Biosynthesis of Carotenoids.-7 Membrane Lipid Biosynthesis in Purple Bacteria.-Part 3: Antenna Complexes: Structure, Function and Organization: 8 Peripheral Complexes of Purple Bacteria.-9 Reaction Center-Light-Harvesting Core Complexes of Purple Bacteria.-10 Structure-Function Relationships in Bacterial Light-Harvesting Complexes Investigated by Reconstitution Techniques.-11 Spectroscopic Properties of Antenna Complexes from Purple Bacteria.-12 Energy Transfer from Carotenoids to Bacteriochlorophylls.-13 Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Excitation Transfer and Trapping in Purple Bacteria.-14 Organization and Assembly of Light-Harvesting Complexes in the Purple Bacterial Membrane.-15 From Atomic-level Structure to Supramolecular Organization in the photosynthetic Unit of Purple Bacteria.-Part 4: Reaction Centre Structure and Function: 16 Structural Plasticity of Reaction Centers from Purple Bacteria.-17 Structure and Function of the Cytochrome c2: Reaction Center Complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides.-18 Directed Modification of Reaction Centers from Purple Bacteria.-19 Mechanism of Charge Separation in Purple Bacterial Reaction Centers.-20 The Acceptor Quinones of Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria- Structure and Spectroscopy.-Part 5: Cyclic Electron Transfer Components and Energy Coupling Reactions: 21 Biogenesis of c-type Cytochromes and Cytochrome Complexes.-22 Structural and Mutational Studies of the Cytochrome bc1 Complex.-23 The Cytochrome bc1and Related bc Complexes: The Rieske/Cytochrome b Complex as the Functional Core of a Central Electron/Proton Transfer Complex.-24 Proton Translocation and ATP Synthesis by the FoF1-ATPase of Purple Bacteria.-25 Proton-Translocating Transhydrogenase in Photosynthetic Bacteria.-26 Functional Coupling Between Reaction Centers and Cytochrome bc1 Complexes.-Part 6: Metabolic Processes: 27 Respiration and Respiratory Complexes.- 28 Carbon Dioxide Metabolism and its Regulation in Nonsulfur Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria.- 29 Degradation of Aromatic Compounds by Purple Nonsulfur Bacteria.-30 Metabolism of Inorganic Sulfur Compounds in Purple Bacteria.-31 Dissimilatory and Assimilatory Nitrate Reduction in the Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria.-32 Swimming and Behavior in Purple Non-Sulfur Bacteria.-33 Metals and Metalloids in Photosynthetic Bacteria: Interactions, Resistance and Putative Homeostasis Revealed by Genome Analysis.-Part 7: Genomics, Regulation and Signalling:34 Purple Bacterial Genomics.- 35 Regulation of Gene Expression in Response to Oxygen Tension.-36 Regulation of Genes by Light.-37 Regulation of Hydrogenase Gene Expression.-38 Regulation of Nitrogen Fixation.-39 Regulation of the Tetrapyrrole Biosynthetic Pathway.-40 Bacteriophytochromes Control Photosynthesis in Rhodopseudomonas palustris.-41 Photoreceptor Proteins from Purple Bacteria.-Part 8: New Applications and Techniques: 42 Foreign Gene Expression in Photosynthetic Bacteria.-43 Assembly of Bacterial Light Harvesting Complexes on Solid Substrates.-44 Optical Spectroscopy of Individual Light-Harvesting Complexes from Purple Bacteria.-45 De novo Designed Bacteriochlorophyll-Binding Helix-Bundle Proteins.-46 Design and Assembly of Functional Light-Harvesting Complexes.-47 The Supramolecular Assembly of the Photosynthetic Apparatus of Purple Bacteria Investigated by High-Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy.-48 Protein Environments and Electron Transfer Processes Probed wit