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ArticleNature structural & molecular biology2011

Crystal structure of a chaperone-bound assembly intermediate of form I Rubisco.

Andreas Bracher, Amanda Starling-Windhof, F Ulrich Hartl, Manajit Hayer-Hartl

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Article in Nature structural & molecular biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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36 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Directed evolution of a plant Rubisco chaperone with altered client recognition.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Genome-Wide Analysis and Expression Profiling of SoybeanInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  9. A temporal gradient of cytonuclear coordination of chaperonins and chaperones during RuBisCo biogenesis in allopolyploid plants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  11. Transcriptome-Wide Gene Expression Plasticity inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  19. Rubisco Assembly in the Chloroplast.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2018
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  20. From chaperonins to Rubisco assembly and metabolic repair.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2017
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andreas BracherDepartment of Cellular Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. bracher@biochem.mpg.de
Amanda Starling-Windhof
F Ulrich Hartl
Manajit Hayer-Hartl
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The form I Rubisco of autotrophic bacteria, algae and plants is a complex of eight large (RbcL) and eight small (RbcS) subunits. It fixes atmospheric CO(2) in the dark reaction of photosynthesis. As shown for the cyanobacterial enzyme, folding of the RbcL subunits is mediated by the GroEL-GroES chaperonin system, and assembly requires the specialized chaperone RbcX, a homodimer of ~15-kDa subunits. Here we present the 3.2-Å crystal structure of a Rubisco assembly intermediate, consisting of the RbcL(8) core with eight RbcX(2) molecules bound. The structure reveals the molecular mechanism by which RbcX(2) mediates oligomeric assembly. Specifically, RbcX(2) provides positional information for proper formation of antiparallel RbcL dimers, thereby preventing RbcL-RbcL misalignment and off-pathway aggregation. The RbcL(8)(RbcX(2))(8) structure also suggests that RbcS functions by stabilizing the '60s loop' of RbcL in the catalytically active conformation.

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AnabaenaBinding SitesCrystallography, X-RayCyanobacteriaDimerizationModels, MolecularMolecular ChaperonesProtein Structure, TertiaryProtein SubunitsRibulose-Bisphosphate CarboxylaseSynechococcusMolecular ChaperonesProtein SubunitsRibulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase

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