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 …

Photorespiration–Rubisco's repair crew

H Bauwe - Journal of Plant Physiology, 2023 - Elsevier
The photorespiratory repair pathway (photorespiration in short) was set up from ancient
metabolic modules about three billion years ago in cyanobacteria, the later ancestors of …

Producing fast and active Rubisco in tobacco to enhance photosynthesis

T Chen, S Riaz, P Davey, Z Zhao, Y Sun… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) performs most of the
carbon fixation on Earth. However, plant Rubisco is an intrinsically inefficient enzyme given …

Unmasking AlphaFold to integrate experiments and predictions in multimeric complexes

C Mirabello, B Wallner, B Nystedt, S Azinas… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Since the release of AlphaFold, researchers have actively refined its predictions and
attempted to integrate it into existing pipelines for determining protein structures. These …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering Rubisco to enhance CO2 utilization

L Zhao, Z Cai, Y Li, Y Zhang - Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) is a pivotal enzyme
that mediates the fixation of CO 2. As the most abundant protein on earth, Rubisco has a …

Metabolic pathways engineering for drought or/and heat tolerance in cereals

S Liu, T Zenda, Z Tian, Z Huang - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Drought (D) and heat (H) are the two major abiotic stresses hindering cereal crop growth
and productivity, either singly or in combination (D/+ H), by imposing various negative …

Predicting plant Rubisco kinetics from RbcL sequence data using machine learning

WA Iqbal, A Lisitsa, MV Kapralov - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) is responsible for
the conversion of atmospheric CO2 to organic carbon during photosynthesis, and often acts …

Perspectives on improving crop Rubisco by directed evolution

M Gionfriddo, T Rhodes, SM Whitney - Seminars in Cell & Developmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Rubisco catalyses the entry of almost all CO 2 into the biosphere and is often the rate-
limiting step in plant photosynthesis and growth. Its notoriety as the most abundant protein …

Recent developments in the engineering of Rubisco activase for enhanced crop yield

I Sparrow-Muñoz, TC Chen… - Biochemical Society …, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Rubisco activase (RCA) catalyzes the release of inhibitory sugar phosphates from ribulose-
1, 6-biphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) and can play an important role in …

Opportunities and avenues for achieving crop climate resilience

T Zenda, N Wang, X Yan, A Dong, Q Yang… - Environmental and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Global crop production and food-and-nutrition security are severely threatened by climate
change-induced effects, including compound environmental stresses and dwindling crop …