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 …

Structure and assembly of cargo Rubisco in two native α-carboxysomes

T Ni, Y Sun, W Burn, MMJ Al-Hazeem, Y Zhu… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Carboxysomes are a family of bacterial microcompartments in cyanobacteria and
chemoautotrophs. They encapsulate Ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase …

The stickers and spacers of Rubiscondensation: assembling the centrepiece of biophysical CO2-concentrating mechanisms

WSL Ang, JA How, JB How… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Aquatic autotrophs that fix carbon using ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase
(Rubisco) frequently expend metabolic energy to pump inorganic carbon towards the …

Rubisco forms a lattice inside alpha-carboxysomes

LA Metskas, D Ortega, LM Oltrogge, C Blikstad… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Despite the importance of microcompartments in prokaryotic biology and bioengineering,
structural heterogeneity has prevented a complete understanding of their architecture …

α-Carboxysome size is controlled by the disordered scaffold protein CsoS2

LM Oltrogge, AW Chen, T Chaijarasphong… - Biochemistry, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Carboxysomes are protein microcompartments that function in the bacterial CO2
concentrating mechanism (CCM) to facilitate CO2 assimilation. To do so, carboxysomes …

Conserved and repetitive motifs in an intrinsically disordered protein drive⍺-carboxysome assembly

JB Turnšek, LM Oltrogge, DF Savage - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2024‏ - jbc.org
All cyanobacteria and some chemoautotrophic bacteria fix CO 2 into sugars using
specialized proteinaceous compartments called carboxysomes. Carboxysomes enclose the …

Cyanobacterial α-carboxysome carbonic anhydrase is allosterically regulated by the Rubisco substrate RuBP

SB Pulsford, MA Outram, B Förster, T Rhodes… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
Cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) sequester a globally consequential
proportion of carbon into the biosphere. Proteinaceous microcompartments, called …

Towards engineering a hybrid carboxysome

ND Nguyen, SB Pulsford, WY Hee, BD Rae… - Photosynthesis …, 2023‏ - Springer
Carboxysomes are bacterial microcompartments, whose structural features enable the
encapsulated Rubisco holoenzyme to operate in a high-CO2 environment. Consequently …

Exploring masses and internal mass distributions of single carboxysomes in free solution using fluorescence and interferometric scattering in an anti-Brownian trap

AA Lavania, WB Carpenter, LM Oltrogge… - The Journal of …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Carboxysomes are self-assembled bacterial microcompartments that facilitate carbon
assimilation by colocalizing the enzymes of CO2 fixation within a protein shell. These …

Can genomics tools assist in gaining insights from the aquatic angiosperms to transform crop plants with multiple carbon concentrating mechanisms to adapt and yield …

P Rangan - Plant Physiology Reports, 2022‏ - Springer
Studies on the speciation and diversification events in plants that are often associated with
adaptations acquired through the long-term interaction with the earth's geological factors …