Rubisco catalyses the first step in photosynthetic carbon fixation, but it can be easily poisoned by side-products of its activity. Structural and functional analyses of a protein conserved across plants, algae and bacteria shows how one such blockage is both removed and recycled.
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Wachter, R., Henderson, J. Photosynthesis: Rubisco rescue. Nature Plants 1, 14010 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2014.10
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