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Maria Teresa Giardi
National Council of Research-IC
Monterotondo Scalo, Rome, Italy

Elena V. Piletska
Cranfield University
Silsoe, Bedfordshire, U.K.

About this book

Biotechnological Applications of Photosynthetic Proteins: Biochips, Biosensors and Biodevices provides an overview of the recent photosystem II research and the systems available for the bioassay of pollutants using biosensors that are based on the photochemical activity. The data presented in this book serves as a basis for the development of a commercial biosensor for use in rapid pre-screening analyses of photosystem II pollutants, minimising costly and time-consuming laboratory analyses.

Table of contents

1. Introduction: The Emergence of a New Technology
Maria Teresa Giardi

2. A Brief Story of Biosensor Technology
Marco Mascini

3. Photosystem II: Composition and Structure
Aspasia Spyridaki, Emmanuel Psylinakis and Demetrios F. Ghanotakis

4. Biogenesis and Structural Dynamics of the Photosystem II Complex
Josef Komenda, Stanislava Kuviková, Lenka Lupínková and Jiri Masojídek

5. Engineering the D1 Subunit of Photosystem II: Application to Biosensor Technology
Udo Johanningmeier, Ivo Bertalan, Lydia Hilbig, Jana Schulze, Stefan Wilski, Edda Zeidler and Walter Oettmeier

6. Chloroplast Genomics of Land Plants and Algae
Margarita S. Odintsova and Nadezhda P. Yurina

7. Comparison of the Immobilization Techniques for Photosystem II
Régis Rouillon, Sergey A. Piletsky, Elena V. Piletska, Pierre Euzet and Robert Carpentier

8. Comparison of Photosynthetic Organisms at Various Evolutionary Stages
for Protein Biochips
Maria Teresa Giardi, Dania Esposito and Giuseppe Torzillo

9. Signal Transduction Techniques for Photosynthetic Proteins
Pinalysa Cosma, Francesco Longobardi and Angela Agostiano

10. Biotechnological and Computational Approaches for the Development
of Biosensors
Giulio Testone, Donato Giannino, Domenico Mariotti, Prashant Katiyar,
Mayank Garg, Emanuela Pace and Maria Teresa Giardi

11. The Problem of Herbicide Water Monitoring in Europe
Licia Guzzella and Fiorenzo Pozzoni

12. Application of Chloroplast D1 Protein in Biosensors for Monitoring Photosystem II-Inhibiting Herbicides
Elena V. Piletska, Sergey A. Piletsky and Regis Rouillon

13. Photosystem II-Based Biosensors for the Detection of Photosynthetic Herbicides
Maria Teresa Giardi and Emanuela Pace

14. Mimicking the Plastoquinone-Binding Pocket of Photosystem II Using Molecularly
Imprinted Polymers
Florent Breton, Elena V. Piletska, Khalku Karim, Régis Rouillonand Sergey A. Piletsky

15. Photosystem II Biosensors for Heavy Metals Monitoring
Régis Rouillon, Sergey A. Piletsky, Florent Breton, Elena V. Piletska and Robert Carpentier

16. Development of Biosensors for the Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide
Louisa Giannoudi, Elena V. Piletska and Sergey A. Piletsky

17. Biodevices for Space Research
Dania Esposito, Cecilia Faraloni, Floriana Fasolo, Andrea Margonelli,
Giuseppe Torzillo, Alba Zanini and Maria Teresa Giardi

18. Successes in the Development and Application of Innovative Techniques
Eleftherios Touloupakis, Giovanni Basile, Emanuela Pace, Maria Teresa Giardi
and Flavia di Costa