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Photosynthesis: Rubisco rescue

Nature Plants volume 1, Article number: 14010 (2015) Cite this article

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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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Figure 1: Saving Rubisco from itself.

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  1. Rebekka M. Wachter and J. Nathan Henderson are in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1604, USA.,

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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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