1. Foreword to the Special Issue for the 14th International Congress on Photobiology

   • Pill-Soon Song

   Editorial 01 September 2005 Pages: 659 - 659

2. Strongly hydrogen-bonded water molecules in the Schiff base region of rhodopsins

   • Yuji Furutani
   • Mikihiro Shibata
   • Hideki Kandori

   Perspective 01 September 2005 Pages: 661 - 666

3. Molecular properties of rod and cone visual pigments from purified chicken cone pigments to mouse rhodopsin in situ

   • Hiroo Imai
   • Shigeki Kuwayama
   • Yoshinori Shichida

   Perspective 01 September 2005 Pages: 667 - 674

4. Self-aggregates of natural and modified chlorophylls as photosynthetic light-harvesting antenna systems: substituent effect on the B-ring

   • Hitoshi Tamiaki

   Perspective 01 September 2005 Pages: 675 - 680

5. Phytochrome phosphorylation in plant light signaling

   • Jeong-Il Kim
   • Jeoung-Eun Park
   • Pill-Soon Song

   Perspective 01 September 2005 Pages: 681 - 687

6. From primary photochemistry to biological function in the blue-light photoreceptors PYP and AppA

   • M. A. van der Horst
   • W. Laan
   • K. J. Hellingwerf

   Perspective 01 September 2005 Pages: 688 - 693

7. Photosensitizers and antioxidants: a way to new drugs?

   • Judit Jakus
   • Orsolya Farkas

   Perspective 01 September 2005 Pages: 694 - 698

8. Ultraviolet B radiation-induced immunosuppression: molecular mechanisms and cellular alterations

   • Nicole Schade
   • Charlotte Esser
   • Jean Krutmann

   Perspective 01 September 2005 Pages: 699 - 708

9. DNA damage initiates photobiologic reactions in the skin

   • Takeshi Horio
   • Hiroko Miyauchi-Hashimoto
   • Hiroyuki Okamoto

   Perspective 01 September 2005 Pages: 709 - 714

10. Detection of reactive oxygen species in the skin of live mice and rats exposed to UVA light: a research review on chemiluminescence and trials for UVA protection

    • Hiromu Sakurai
    • Hiroyuki Yasui
    • Mariko Shigemoto

    Perspective 01 September 2005 Pages: 715 - 720

11. Structural daily rhythms in GFP-labelled neurons in the visual system of Drosophila melanogaster

    • J. Górska-Andrzejak
    • A. Keller
    • E. Pyza

    Perspective 01 September 2005 Pages: 721 - 726

12. Kinetic analysis of the activation of photoactivated adenylyl cyclase (PAC), a blue-light receptor for photomovements of Euglena

    • Shinya Yoshikawa
    • Takeshi Suzuki
    • Mineo Iseki

    Perspective 01 September 2005 Pages: 727 - 731

13. Photoactivated adenylyl cyclase (PAC) genes in the flagellate Euglena gracilis mutant strains

    • Maria Ntefidou
    • Donat-Peter Häder

    Perspective 01 September 2005 Pages: 732 - 739

14. Use of GFP tags to monitor localization of different luciferases in E. coli

    • Balan Venkatesh
    • Mohammad Arifuzzaman
    • Yoshihiro Ohmiya

    Full Paper 01 September 2005 Pages: 740 - 743

15. Oxygen-evolving Photosystem II core complexes: a new paradigm based on the spectral identification of the charge-separating state, the primary acceptor and assignment of low-temperature fluorescence

    • Elmars Krausz
    • Joseph L. Hughes
    • Sindra Peterson Årsköld

    Full Paper 01 September 2005 Pages: 744 - 753

16. Spectroscopic study of the chromophore–protein association and primary photoinduced events in the photoreceptor of Blepharisma japonicum

    • Pascal Plaza
    • Mathilde Mahet
    • Francesco Lenci

    Full Paper 01 September 2005 Pages: 754 - 761

17. Photocycle features of heterologously expressed and assembled eukaryotic flavin-binding BLUF domains of photoactivated adenylyl cyclase (PAC), a blue-light receptor in Euglena gracilis

    • Shinji Ito
    • Akio Murakami
    • Masakatsu Watanabe

    Full Paper 01 September 2005 Pages: 762 - 769

18. Photomorphogenesis of leaves: shade-avoidance and differentiation of sun and shade leaves

    • Gyung-Tae Kim
    • Satoshi Yano
    • Hirokazu Tsukaya

    Full Paper 01 September 2005 Pages: 770 - 774