ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025
Rubisco is slow across the tree of life.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Rapid plastid isolation reveals the chloroplast proteome and structures of the chlororibosome large subunit and RuBisCO inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- From fundamental understanding to engineering of carboxysomes for biotechnological applications.Plant communications · 2026Review
- Overexpression of β-carboxysomes increases photosynthesis and growth in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803.Plant physiology · 2026Article
- Diversity-driven biochemical survey reveals widespread dimerization throughout the rubisco superfamily.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Diversity in Rubisco kinetics and CO2-concentrating mechanisms in Cyanobacteria.Plant physiology · 2026Article
- Architectural and biochemical advances in understanding microbial COThe Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026Review
- Stages of biomolecular condensate formation in pro-β-carboxysome assembly.Nature plants · 2026Article
- Not just Rubisco: integrated strategies to overcome the biochemical limitations of CFrontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Understanding carboxysomes to enhance carbon fixation in crops.Biochemical Society transactions · 2025Review
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Abstract
Rubisco is the main gateway through which inorganic carbon enters the biosphere, catalyzing the vast majority of carbon fixation on Earth. This pivotal enzyme has long been observed to be kinetically constrained. Yet, this impression is based on kinetic measurements heavily focused on eukaryotic rubiscos, a rather conserved group of low genetic diversity. Moreover, the fastest rubiscos that we know of so far were found among the sparsely sampled prokaryotes. Could there be yet faster rubiscos among the uncharted regions of rubisco's phylogenetic diversity? Here, we perform a characterization of more than 250 rubiscos from a wide range of bacteria and archaea, thereby doubling the coverage of the diversity of this key enzyme. We assess the distribution of the carboxylation rates at saturating levels of CO
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