Pyrenoid formation is associated with RuBisCO small subunit alpha-helices in Chlamydomonas

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• Moritz Meyer, Physiological Ecology Group
• Friday 25 November 2011, 13:00-13:30
• Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

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Aquatic photosynthesisers contribute to nearly half of the global net primary production, despite slow diffusivity and low availability of free CO2 in water. This productivity is supported by a series of biophysical carbon concentrating mechanisms (CCM), which use transmembrane transporters, carbonic anhydrases, and the packaging of the carboxylating enzyme RuBisCO into a sub-cellular microcompartment. In eukaryotic algae, this microcompartment is the pyrenoid, which remains to this date without a precise molecular definition. Here, using Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a model unicellular green alga that induces a CCM when grown under atmospheric CO2 levels, we present evidence that the small subunits of RuBisCO play a crucial role in the packaging of the enzyme into the pyrenoid, and that pyrenoid occurrence is directly related to CCM expression.

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