Rubisco function, evolution, and engineering

N Prywes, NR Phillips, OT Tuck… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Carbon fixation is the process by which CO2 is converted from a gas into biomass. The
Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle (CBB) is the dominant carbon-consuming pathway on …

Optimizing R ubisco and its regulation for greater resource use efficiency

E Carmo‐Silva, JC Scales, PJ Madgwick… - Plant, cell & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Rubisco catalyses the carboxylation of ribulose‐1, 5‐bisphosphate (RuBP), enabling net
CO2 assimilation in photosynthesis. The properties and regulation of R ubisco are not …

Rubisco activity and regulation as targets for crop improvement

MAJ Parry, PJ Andralojc, JC Scales… - Journal of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Rubisco (ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate (RuBP) carboxylase/oxygenase) enables net
carbon fixation through the carboxylation of RuBP. However, some characteristics of …

Advancing Our Understanding and Capacity to Engineer Nature's CO2-Sequestering Enzyme, Rubisco

SM Whitney, RL Houtz, H Alonso - Plant physiology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
There is a growing impetus in developing novel strategies to address global concerns
regarding food security. As crop productivity gains through traditional breeding begin to lag …

Biogenesis and metabolic maintenance of Rubisco

A Bracher, SM Whitney, FU Hartl… - Annual review of plant …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) mediates the fixation of
atmospheric CO2 in photosynthesis by catalyzing the carboxylation of the 5-carbon sugar …

Improving photosynthesis, plant productivity and abiotic stress tolerance–current trends and future perspectives

B Nowicka, J Ciura, R Szymańska, J Kruk - Journal of plant physiology, 2018 - Elsevier
With unfavourable climate changes and an increasing global population, there is a great
need for more productive and stress-tolerant crops. As traditional methods of crop …

Large variation in the Rubisco kinetics of diatoms reveals diversity among their carbon-concentrating mechanisms

JN Young, AMC Heureux, RE Sharwood… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
While marine phytoplankton rival plants in their contribution to global primary productivity,
our understanding of their photosynthesis remains rudimentary. In particular, the kinetic …

[HTML][HTML] Photorespiration

C Peterhansel, I Horst, M Niessen… - The Arabidopsis Book …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Photorespiration is initiated by the oxygenase activity of ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate-
carboxylase/oxygenase (RUBISCO), the same enzyme that is also responsible for CO 2 …

Cross-species analysis traces adaptation of Rubisco toward optimality in a low-dimensional landscape

Y Savir, E Noor, R Milo, T Tlusty - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Rubisco (D-ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase), probably the most
abundant protein in the biosphere, performs an essential part in the process of carbon …

Functional reconstitution of a bacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism in Escherichia coli

AI Flamholz, E Dugan, C Blikstad, S Gleizer… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Many photosynthetic organisms employ a CO2 concentrating mechanism (CCM) to increase
the rate of CO2 fixation via the Calvin cycle. CCMs catalyze≈ 50% of global photosynthesis …