Cross-species analysis traces adaptation of Rubisco toward optimality in a low-dimensional landscape

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3475-3480

  Savir, Yonatan ^a   Noor, Elad ^a   Milo, Ron ^a   Tlusty, Tsvi ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carbon fixation; Enzyme specificity; Photosynthesis; Protein evolution

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBOXYLATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; EVOLUTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; VELOCITY;

ALGAE; BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PLANTS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77649245472     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911663107     Document Type: Article

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