Role of carboxysomes in cyanobacterial CO2 assimilation: CO2 concentrating mechanisms and metabolon implications

CA Huffine, R Zhao, YJ Tang… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Many carbon‐fixing organisms have evolved CO2 concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) to
enhance the delivery of CO2 to RuBisCO, while minimizing reactions with the competitive …

Adapting from Low to High: An Update to CO2-Concentrating Mechanisms of Cyanobacteria and Microalgae

EV Kupriyanova, NA Pronina, DA Los - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
The intracellular accumulation of inorganic carbon (Ci) by microalgae and cyanobacteria
under ambient atmospheric CO2 levels was first documented in the 80s of the 20th Century …

Rubisco regulation in response to altered carbon status in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942

AK Singh, M Santos-Merino, JK Sakkos… - Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Photosynthetic organisms possess a variety of mechanisms to achieve balance between
absorbed light (source) and the capacity to metabolically utilize or dissipate this energy …

Dissecting the phase separation and oligomerization activities of the carboxysome positioning protein McdB

JL Basalla, CA Mak, JA Byrne, M Ghalmi, Y Hoang… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Across bacteria, protein-based organelles called bacterial microcompartments (BMCs)
encapsulate key enzymes to regulate their activities. The model BMC is the carboxysome …

Bicarbonate-based microalgal cultivation technologies: Mechanisms, critical strategies, and future perspectives

MJD Latagan, D Nagarajan, WM Huang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conventional carbon fixation by microalgae involves the direct introduction of CO 2 as the
carbon source for microalgal growth. However, CO 2 displays low solubility in water and a …

Anticyanobacterial effect of p-coumaric acid on Limnothrix sp. determined by proteomic and metabolomic analysis

L Li, G Xie, P Dong, H Tang, L Wu, L Zhang - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Regulating photosynthetic machinery is a powerful but challenging strategy for selectively
inhibiting bloom-forming cyanobacteria, in which photosynthesis mainly occurs in thylakoids …

[HTML][HTML] Positioning of cellular components by the ParA/MinD family of ATPases

LT Pulianmackal, AG Vecchiarelli - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•The A/D family of ATPases spatially organizes an array of disparate cellular
cargos.•Our understanding of organelle trafficking in bacteria remains in its infancy.•Many …

Cell morphology engineering enhances grazing resistance of Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 for non-sterile large-scale cultivation

N Toda, N Inoue-Kashino, H Fujita, R Yoshida… - Journal of bioscience …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the practical scale of cyanobacterial cultivation, the golden algae Poterioochromonas
malhamensis is a well-known predator that causes devastating damage to the culture …

Dissection of the ATPase active site of McdA reveals the sequential steps essential for carboxysome distribution

P Hakim, Y Hoang, AG Vecchiarelli - Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2021 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Carboxysomes, the most prevalent and well-studied anabolic bacterial microcompartment,
play a central role in efficient carbon fixation by cyanobacteria and proteobacteria. In …

An invariant C-terminal tryptophan in McdB mediates its interaction and positioning function with carboxysomes

JL Basalla, M Ghalmi, Y Hoang, RE Dow… - Molecular Biology of …, 2024 - molbiolcell.org
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are widespread, protein-based organelles that
regulate metabolism. The model for studying BMCs is the carboxysome, which facilitates …