Bacteria are an important part of every ecosystem that they inhabit on Earth. Environmental
microbiologists usually focus on a few dominant bacterial groups, neglecting less abundant …

Highlights•RubisCO evolved into Nature's predominant CO 2-fixing enzyme in three distinct
steps.•RubisCO evolved from a non-CO 2-fixing ancestral enzyme into a true …

Aquatic Photosynthesis is a comprehensive guide to understanding the evolution and
ecology of photosynthesis in aquatic environments. This second edition, thoroughly revised …

Nitrospira are barely studied and mostly uncultured nitrite-oxidizing bacteria, which are,
according to molecular data, among the most diverse and widespread nitrifiers in natural …

The evolution of organisms capable of oxygenic photosynthesis paralleled a long-term
reduction in atmospheric CO2 and the increase in O2. Consequently, the competition …

Ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) is the major enzyme
assimilating CO2 into the biosphere. At the same time Rubisco is an extremely inefficient …

Methylotrophy is a metabolic capability possessed by microorganisms that allows them to
build biomass and to obtain energy from organic substrates containing no carbon–carbon …

RuBisCO‐catalyzed CO2 fixation is the main source of organic carbon in the biosphere. This
enzyme is present in all domains of life in different forms (III, II, and I) and its origin goes back …

Metagenomics projects based on shotgun sequencing of populations of micro-organisms
yield insight into protein families. We used sequence similarity clustering to explore proteins …

There are four forms of ribulose 1, 5-bis phosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) found
in nature. Forms I, II, and III catalyse the carboxylation and oxygenation of ribulose 1, 5-bis …