Despite slow catalysis and confused substrate specificity, all ribulose bisphosphate carboxylases may be nearly perfectly optimized.

By G. Tcherkez, G. Farquhar, T. Andrews. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006

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Subfields: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology

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Comprehending crystalline β-carotene accumulation by comparing engineered cell models and the natural carotenoid-rich system of citrus (2011, neutral): “The downside of this strategy was a >3-fold drop in the carboxylation rate (Tcherkez et al., 2006), requiring more Rubisco enzyme to perform the same amount of CO2 fixation, and burdening photosynthesis with a rate of photorespiration as high as 30% of the theoretical maximum rate of CO2 fixation.”
The age of Rubisco: the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis (2007, background): “Rubisco is exquisitely finely tuned to its task (Gutteridge & Pierce, 2006; Tcherkez et al., 2006).”
Pluses and minuses of ammonium and nitrate uptake and assimilation by phytoplankton and implications for productivity and community composition, with emphasis on nitrogen‐enriched conditions (2016, background): “There are several forms of nuclear-encoded GS, one localized to the chloroplast (form GSII), and one or two forms localized in the cytosol or the mitochondrion (GS I or III), at least in diatoms (Robertson and Alberte 1996; Takabayashi et al. 2005; Siaut et al. 2007).”
The Temperature Dependence of the Carbon Cycle in Aquatic Ecosystems (2010, background): “, 2008), combined with differences in the kinetic properties of the enzyme Rubisco (Tcherkez et al., 2006) might in part explain this phenomenon.”
Direct photosynthetic recycling of carbon dioxide to isobutyraldehyde (2009, background): “, which is implicated as the limiting step in CO 2 fixation because of its poor turnover rate and the competition between O 2 and CO 2 at the active sit”
Raising yield potential of wheat. II. Increasing photosynthetic capacity and efficiency. (2011, background): “…the rate constant for carboxylation, K c cat and the Rubisco specificity factor, first reported by Bainbridge et al. (1995) and more recently by Tcherkez et al. (2006) and Savir et al. (2010), there is sufficient variation between species and sufficient deviation from this apparently negative…”