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Carbon acquisition by diatoms.
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- Carbon allocation strategy of Thalassiosira weissflogii in response to elevated pCOBMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Inorganic Carbon Acquisition and Photosynthetic Metabolism in Marine Photoautotrophs: A Summary.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Transcriptomic Analysis of the Response of the Toxic DinoflagellateMicroorganisms · 2023Article
- Temperature sensitivity of carbon concentrating mechanisms in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum.Photosynthesis research · 2023Article
- Carbon Dioxide Concentration Mechanisms in Natural Populations of Marine Diatoms: Insights FromFrontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- The genome of Prasinoderma coloniale unveils the existence of a third phylum within green plants.Nature ecology & evolution · 2020Article
- Metabolic Innovations Underpinning the Origin and Diversification of the Diatom Chloroplast.Biomolecules · 2019Review
- In-situ behavioural and physiological responses of Antarctic microphytobenthos to ocean acidification.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The intracellular distribution of inorganic carbon fixing enzymes does not support the presence of a C4 pathway in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum.Photosynthesis research · 2018Article
- Acquisition and metabolism of carbon in the Ochrophyta other than diatoms.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Inorganic carbon availability in benthic diatom communities: photosynthesis and migration.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
- Exploring the Capacity of Water Framework Directive Indices to Assess Ecosystem Services in Fluvial and Riparian Systems: Towards a Second Implementation Phase.Environmental management · 2016Article
- Large variation in the Rubisco kinetics of diatoms reveals diversity among their carbon-concentrating mechanisms.Journal of experimental botany · 2016Article
- Patterns of Transcript Abundance of Eukaryotic Biogeochemically-Relevant Genes in the Amazon River Plume.PloS one · 2016Article
- Effects of elevated temperature and CO2 on intertidal microphytobenthos.BMC ecology · 2015Article
- Physiological Responses of a Model Marine Diatom to Fast pH Changes: Special Implications of Coastal Water Acidification.PloS one · 2015Article
- Biochemical and biophysical CO2 concentrating mechanisms in two species of freshwater macrophyte within the genus Ottelia (Hydrocharitaceae).Photosynthesis research · 2014Article
- Energy costs of carbon dioxide concentrating mechanisms in aquatic organisms.Photosynthesis research · 2014Article
- Serial gene losses and foreign DNA underlie size and sequence variation in the plastid genomes of diatoms.Genome biology and evolution · 2014Article
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Abstract
Diatoms are responsible for up to 40% of primary productivity in the ocean, and complete genome sequences are available for two species. However, there are very significant gaps in our understanding of how diatoms take up and assimilate inorganic C. Diatom plastids originate from secondary endosymbiosis with a red alga and their Form ID Rubisco (ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase) from horizontal gene transfer, which means that embryophyte paradigms can only give general guidance as to their C acquisition mechanisms. Although diatom Rubiscos have relatively high CO(2) affinity and CO(2)/O(2) selectivity, the low diffusion coefficient for CO(2) in water has the potential to restrict the rate of photosynthesis. Diatoms growing in their natural aquatic habitats operate inorganic C concentrating mechanisms (CCMs), which provide a steady-state CO(2) concentration around Rubisco higher than that in the medium. How these CCMs work is still a matter of debate. However, it is known that both CO(2) and HCO (3) (-) are taken up, and an obvious but as yet unproven possibility is that active transport of these species across the plasmalemma and/or the four-membrane plastid envelope is the basis of the CCM. In one marine diatom there is evidence of C(4)-like biochemistry which could act as, or be part of, a CCM. Alternative mechanisms which have not been eliminated include the production of CO(2) from HCO (3) (-) at low pH maintained by a H(+) pump, in a compartment close to that containing Rubisco.
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