Evolution and diversity of CO2 concentrating mechanisms in cyanobacteria

MR Badger, D Hanson, GD Price - Functional Plant Biology, 2002 - CSIRO Publishing
Cyanobacteria have developed an effective photosynthetic CO2 concentrating mechanism
(CCM) for improving the efficiency of carboxylation by a relatively inefficient Rubisco. The …

Functional characterization of NBC4: a new electrogenic sodium-bicarbonate cotransporter

P Sassani, A Pushkin, E Gross… - … of Physiology-Cell …, 2002 - journals.physiology.org
Sodium-bicarbonate cotransporters are homologous membrane proteins mediating the
electrogenic or electroneutral transport of sodium and bicarbonate. Of the functionally …

Regulators of Slc4 bicarbonate transporter activity

IM Thornell, MO Bevensee - Frontiers in physiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The Slc4 family of transporters is comprised of anion exchangers (AE1-4), Na+-coupled
bicarbonate transporters (NCBTs) including electrogenic Na/bicarbonate cotransporters …

Bicarbonate secretion: it takes two to tango

MA Gray - Nature Cell Biology, 2004 - nature.com
New research reveals a reciprocal regulation between the CFTR chloride channel,
implicated in cystic fibrosis, and several members of the SLC26 family of chloride …

DABs are inorganic carbon pumps found throughout prokaryotic phyla

JJ Desmarais, AI Flamholz, C Blikstad, EJ Dugan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bacterial autotrophs often rely on CO2 concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) to assimilate
carbon. Although many CCM proteins have been identified, a systematic screen of the …

Carbon dioxide concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: inorganic carbon transport and CO2 recapture

Y Wang, D Duanmu, MH Spalding - Photosynthesis research, 2011 - Springer
Many microalgae are capable of acclimating to CO 2 limited environments by operating a
CO 2 concentrating mechanism (CCM), which is driven by various energy-coupled inorganic …

The environmental plasticity and ecological genomics of the cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism

MR Badger, GD Price, BM Long… - Journal of experimental …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacteria probably exhibit the widest range of diversity in growth habitats of all
photosynthetic organisms. They are found in cold and hot, alkaline and acidic, marine …

Isolation and functional characterization of Ca2+/H+ antiporters from cyanobacteria

R Waditee, GS Hossain, Y Tanaka, T Nakamura… - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
Genome sequences of cyanobacteria, Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, Anabaena sp. PCC
7120, and Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1 revealed the presence of a single Ca …

Modes of active inorganic carbon uptake in the cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. PCC7942

GD Price, S Maeda, T Omata… - Functional Plant …, 2002 - CSIRO Publishing
Cyanobacteria (blue–green algae) have evolved a remarkable environmental adaptation for
survival at limiting CO2 concentrations. The adaptation is known as a CO2 concentrating …

Quantitative analysis of the chemotaxis of a green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, to bicarbonate using diffusion-based microfluidic device

HI Choi, JYH Kim, HS Kwak, YJ Sung, SJ Sim - Biomicrofluidics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
There is a growing interest in the photosynthetic carbon fixation by microalgae for the
production of valuable products from carbon dioxide (CO 2). Microalgae are capable of …