A linker protein from a red-type pyrenoid phase separates with Rubisco via oligomerizing sticker motifs

• Main Authors: Oh, Zhen Guo, Ang, Warren Shou Leong, Poh, Cheng Wei, Lai, Soak-Kuan, Sze, Siu Kwan, Li, Hoi-Yeung, Bhushan, Shashi, Wunder, Tobias, Mueller-Cajar, Oliver
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Medicine, Health and Life Sciences; Pyrenoid; Rubisco
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174561
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The slow kinetics and poor substrate specificity of the key photosynthetic CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco have prompted the repeated evolution of Rubisco-containing biomolecular condensates known as pyrenoids in the majority of eukaryotic microalgae. Diatoms dominate marine photosynthesis, but the intera...