ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019
The global mass and average rate of rubisco.
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- Diversity-driven biochemical survey reveals widespread dimerization throughout the rubisco superfamily.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Small subunit isoform diversity underlies structural heterogeneity in native plant Rubisco.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Rewinding evolution in planta: A Rubisco-null platform validates high-performance ancestral enzymes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Ecosystem consequences of a nitrogen-fixing proto-organelle.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Fermi calculations enable quick downselection of target genes and process optimization in photosynthetic systems.Plant physiology · 2025Review
- Abundant and metabolically flexible bacterial lineages underlie a vast potential for rubisco-mediated carbon fixation in the dark ocean.Genome biology · 2025Article
- Carboxylation and Oxygenation Kinetics and Large Subunit (rbcL) DNA Sequences for Rubisco From Two Ecotypes of Plantago lanceolata L. That Are Native to Sites Differing in Atmospheric COPlant, cell & environment · 2025Article
- Genetic engineering of RuBisCO by multiplex CRISPR editing small subunits in rice.Plant biotechnology journal · 2025Article
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Abstract
Photosynthetic carbon assimilation enables energy storage in the living world and produces most of the biomass in the biosphere. Rubisco (d-ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase) is responsible for the vast majority of global carbon fixation and has been claimed to be the most abundant protein on Earth. Here we provide an updated and rigorous estimate for the total mass of Rubisco on Earth, concluding it is ≈0.7 Gt, more than an order of magnitude higher than previously thought. We find that >90% of Rubisco enzymes are found in the ≈2 × 10
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