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Prospects for manipulating the substrate specificity of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase
Author(s) -
Pierce John
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
physiologia plantarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.351
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1399-3054
pISSN - 0031-9317
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-3054.1988.tb09183.x
Subject(s) - photorespiration , oxygenase , ribulose 1,5 bisphosphate , rubisco , pyruvate carboxylase , photosynthesis , ribulose , biochemistry , substrate (aquarium) , chemistry , biology , enzyme , ecology
Pierce, J. 1988. Prospects for manipulating the substrate specificity of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. ‐ Physiol. Plant. 72: 690–698. The idea of enhancing plant productivity by minimizing the apparently wasteful process of photorespiration has been an enduring one. Since the relative fluxes of carbon through the competing pathways of photosynthesis and photorespiration are determined by the kinetic properties of a single enzyme, ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, it has been conjectured that genetic modification of this protein could provide more productive plants. Recent advances in techniques for studying ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase hold promise for determining whether such modifications will prove possible.