(P3A-1) Interaction studies of chlorosome proteins and characterization of mutants lacking [2Fe-2S] chlorosome proteins in Chlorobium tepidum. (Abstract 219)
Hui Li^*,1, Niels-Ulrik Frigaard¹, Donald Bryant¹, ¹ 232 South Frear, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

(P3A-2) Mechanisms of redox and blue light control of photosystem gene expression in R. capsulatus. (Abstract 220)
Carl Bauer^*,1, ¹ Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, USA

(P3A-3) Structural analysis and excitation transfer dynamics of B808-866 light-harvesting complexes from the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. (Abstract 221)
Yueyong Xin¹, Su Lin¹, Gabriel Montaño¹, Robert Blankenship^*,1, ¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Tempe, Arizona, USA

(P3A-4) H-bonding in a model bacteriochlorophyll binding site drives assembly of light harvesting complex. (Abstract 222)
Lee Gyan Kwa¹, Adela Garcia-Martin¹, Attila Vegh², Brigitte Strohmann¹, Neil Hunter³, Bruno Robert⁴, Hugo Scheer¹, Paula Braun^*,1, ¹ Department Biologie I der Universität, Botanik, München, Germany² Institute of Biophysics and Radiation Biology, Semmelweis University, Faculty of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary³ Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom⁴ Section de Biophysique des Fonctions Membranaires, DBJC/CEA and URA CNRS 2096, Saclay, Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France

(P3A-5) Optical spectroscopic studies of polyenes and carotenoids having various -electron chain lengths. (Abstract 223)
Harry Frank^*,1, Mary Grace Galinato¹, Emily Chu¹, Ronald Christensen², ¹ Department of Chemistry, Storrs, CT, USA² Department of Chemistry, Brunswick, ME, USA

(P3A-6) Investigation of B-side electron transfer in multiple mutant reaction centre from Rb. Sphaeroides by femtosecond time resolved spectroscopy. (Abstract 224)
Dmitrij Frolov^*,1, Marion Wakeham², Elena Andrizhiyevskaya¹, Michael Jones², Rienk van Grondelle¹, ¹ Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands² University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

(P3A-7) Natural reverse mutations of the inactivated bchU gene in Chlorobium vibrioforme NCIB 8327. (Abstract 225)
Jiro Harada^*,1, Hirozo Oh-oka², Yoshitaka Saga¹, Hitoshi Tamiaki¹, ¹ Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan² Department of Biology, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

(P3A-8) New mechanism of excitation energy transfer from B800 to B850 in bacterial LH2 complexes. (Abstract 226)
Toshiaki Kakitani^*,1, Akihiro Kimura², ¹ Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan² Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

(P3A-9) Model structures and energy transfer in chlorosomes of green sulfur and non-sulfur bacteria. (Abstract 227)
Juha Linnanto^*,1, Jouko Korppi-Tommola¹, ¹ Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Jyvaskyla, Finland

(P3A-10) Self-aggregation of zinc oxo-bacteriochlorins as models of chlorosomal chlorophylls. (Abstract 228)
Michio Kunieda^*,1, Hitoshi Tamiaki¹, ¹ Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty and Science and Engineering, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

(P3A-11) Self-aggregate of zinc chlorins surrounded with phospholipid assembly for a structural model of chlorosome. (Abstract 229)
Tomohiro Miyatake^*,1, Tamotsu Onishi¹, Hitoshi Tamiaki², Manabu Fujiwara¹, Takayuki Matsushita¹, ¹ Department of Materials Chemistry, Ryukoku University, Otsu, Shiga, Japan² Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

(P3A-12) Self-assembly of light-harvesting core complexes (LH1-RC) of Rps. palustris on an amino terminated ITO electrode. (Abstract 230)
Yukari Nakamura^*,1, Katsunori Nakagawa¹, Makiko Ogawa¹, Yoshiharu Suemori¹, Morio Nagata¹, Alastair Gardiner², Richard Cogdell², Mamoru Nango¹, ¹ Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya, Aichi, JAPAN² Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

(P3A-13) Self-assembly and characterization of photosynthetic light-harvesting complex containing carotenoid. (Abstract 231)
Emi Nishimura^*,1, Katsunori Nakagawa¹, Makiko Ogawa¹, Takehisa Dewa¹, Keiji Yamashita¹, Hideki Hashimato², Mamoru Nango¹, ¹ Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan²

(P3A-14) Highly variable morphology of the light-harvesting 1 complex imaged by atomic force microscopy. (Abstract 232)
John Olsen^*,1, Svetlana Bahatyrova², C. Hunter¹, Cees Otto², ¹ Robert Hill Institute for Photosynthesis Research and Krebs Institute fro Biomolecular Research, Sheffield, United Kingdom² University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

(P3A-15) Charge and protein dynamics in the reaction center of purple bacteria studied by ultrafast midinfrared spectroscopy. (Abstract 233)
Natalia Pawlowicz-Wereszczynska^*,1, Jacques Breton², Luuk van Wilderen¹, Rienk van Grondelle¹, Marie Louise Groot¹, ¹ Faculty of Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands² Service de Bioenergetique, Bat. 532, France

(P3A-16) Excited state dynamics in the Rhodospirillum rubrum light-harvesting 1 protein reconstituted with non-native carotenoids. (Abstract 234)
Joseph Shih¹, Seth Brietbart¹, Robert Niederman^*,1, ¹ Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Piscataway, NJ, USA

(P3A-17) Fluorescence spectral fluctuations of single LH2 complexes from Rhodopseudomonas acidophila strain 10050. (Abstract 235)
Danielis Rutkauskas^*,, Vladimir Novoderezhkin, Richard Cogdell, Rienk van Grondelle¹, ¹ Department of Biophysics and Physics of Complex Systems, Division of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, The Netherlands

(P3A-18) Microscopic investigation of single chlorosomes from green photosynthetic bacteria at cryogenic temperature. (Abstract 236)
Yoshitaka Saga^*,1, Yutaka Shibata², Daisuke Yamamoto², Tsutomu Kouyama², Shigeru Itoh², Hitoshi Tamiaki¹, ¹ Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan² Division of Materials Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

(P3A-19) Self-assembly of hydrophobic fusion proteins with a photosynthetic pigment. (Abstract 237)
Miku SUGIMOTO^*,1, Kiyotaka YOSHIDA¹, Takehisa DEWA¹, Keiji YAMASHITA¹, Mamoru NANGO¹, ¹ Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

(P3A-20) Self-aggregation of synthetic zinc 17,18-cis-bacteriochlorophyll-d derivative. (Abstract 238)
Hitoshi Tamiaki^*,1, Takuya Watanabe¹, Michio Kunieda¹, ¹ Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan

(P3A-21) Towards Structural determination of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides core-LHI antenna. (Abstract 7239)
Eva Pebay-Peyroula¹, Dominique Cannella¹, Colette Jungas^*,2, ¹ Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France²