The evolution of RuBisCO stability at the thermal limit of photoautotrophy

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 752-760

  Miller, Scott R ^a   McGuirl, Michele A ^a   Carvey, Darla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; functional synthesis; niche extension; thermostability

Indexed keywords

PLASMID DNA; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CARBON FIXATION; CARBOXYLATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLADISTICS; CODON; CODON USAGE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIVERSIFYING SELECTION; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME STABILITY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEAT TOLERANCE; HEAT TREATMENT; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOAUTOTROPHY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; THERMOSTABILITY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENZYME STABILITY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SYNECHOCOCCUS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 6301;

EID: 84875634701     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss327     Document Type: Article

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