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A promiscuous mechanism to phase separate eukaryotic carbon fixation in the green lineage - Nature Plants

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By James Barrett, Mark C. Leake, Michael Plevin, Alistair McCormick, James N. Blaza, Sabina Musiał
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Abstract CO2 fixation is commonly limited by inefficiency of the CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco. Eukaryotic algae concentrate and fix CO2 in phase-separated condensates called pyrenoids, which complete up to one-third of global CO2 fixation. Condensation of Rubisco in pyrenoids is dependent on interaction with disordered linker proteins that show little conservation between species. We developed a sequence-independent bioinformatic pipeline to identify linker proteins in green algae.
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