Engineering chloroplasts to improve Rubisco catalysis: prospects for translating improvements into food and fiber crops

The Costs of Photorespiration to Food Production Now and in the Future

(2016) Berkley J. Walker et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Structural insight into the cooperation of chloroplast chaperonin subunits

(2016) Shijia Zhang et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Evolution of RLSB, a nuclear-encoded S1 domain RNA binding protein associated with post-transcriptional regulation of plastid-encoded rbcL mRNA in vascular plants

(2016) Pradeep Yerramsetty et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cyanobacterial CO 2 -concentrating mechanism components: function and prospects for plant metabolic engineering

(2016) Benedict M Long et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Prospects for improving CO2 fixation in C3-crops through understanding C4-Rubisco biogenesis and catalytic diversity

(2016) Robert E Sharwood et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Improved analysis of C4and C3photosynthesis via refinedin vitroassays of their carbon fixation biochemistry

(2016) Robert E. Sharwood et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Large variation in the Rubisco kinetics of diatoms reveals diversity among their carbon-concentrating mechanisms

(2016) Jodi N. Young et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Manipulating photorespiration to increase plant productivity: recent advances and perspectives for crop improvement

(2016) Marco Betti et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Towards engineering carboxysomes into C3 plants

(2016) Maureen R. Hanson et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Biochemical characterization of predicted Precambrian RuBisCO

(2016) Patrick M. Shih et al.   Nature Communications

Evolving Methanococcoides burtonii archaeal Rubisco for improved photosynthesis and plant growth

(2016) Robert H. Wilson et al.   Scientific Reports

ATP-dependent molecular chaperones in plastids — More complex than expected

(2015) Raphael Trösch et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Plastid sigma factors: Their individual functions and regulation in transcription

(2015) Wei Chi et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Chloroplast RNA polymerases: Role in chloroplast biogenesis

(2015) Thomas Börner et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Meeting the Global Food Demand of the Future by Engineering Crop Photosynthesis and Yield Potential

(2015) Stephen P. Long et al.   CELL

Improving photosynthesis and yield potential in cereal crops by targeted genetic manipulation: Prospects, progress and challenges

(2015) Robert T. Furbank et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Protomer Roles in Chloroplast Chaperonin Assembly and Function

(2015) Cuicui Bai et al.   Molecular Plant

Structure and mechanism of the Rubisco-assembly chaperone Raf1

(2015) Thomas Hauser et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Transgenic tobacco plants with improved cyanobacterial Rubisco expression but no extra assembly factors grow at near wild-type rates if provided with elevated CO2

(2015) Alessandro Occhialini et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Improving recombinant Rubisco biogenesis, plant photosynthesis and growth by coexpressing its ancillary RAF1 chaperone

(2015) Spencer M. Whitney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand

(2015) Donald R. Ort et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structure and mechanism of the Rubisco-assembly chaperone Raf1

(2015) Thomas Hauser et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Role of auxiliary proteins in Rubisco biogenesis and function

(2015) Thomas Hauser et al.   Nature Plants

Photosynthesis: Getting it together for CO2 fixation

(2015) Robert Wilson et al.   Nature Plants

Degradation of potent Rubisco inhibitor by selective sugar phosphatase

(2015) Andreas Bracher et al.   Nature Plants

Pentatricopeptide Repeat Proteins in Plants

(2014) Alice Barkan et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Structure and Identification of a Pterin Dehydratase-like Protein as a Ribulose-bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase (RuBisCO) Assembly Factor in the α-Carboxysome

(2014) Nicole M. Wheatley et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Towards turbocharged photosynthesis

(2014) G. Dean Price et al.   NATURE

A faster Rubisco with potential to increase photosynthesis in crops

(2014) Myat T. Lin et al.   NATURE

Temperature responses of the Rubisco maximum carboxylase activity across domains of life: phylogenetic signals, trade-offs, and importance for carbon gain

(2014) J. Galmés et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

RHON1 Mediates a Rho-Like Activity for Transcription Termination in Plastids ofArabidopsis thaliana

(2014) Wei Chi et al.   PLANT CELL

Correlating Rubisco catalytic and sequence diversity within C3plants with changes in atmospheric CO2concentrations

(2014) ROBERT E. SHARWOOD et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Expanding knowledge of the Rubisco kinetics variability in plant species: environmental and evolutionary trends

(2014) JERONI GALMÉS et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Optimizing Rubisco and its regulation for greater resource use efficiency

(2014) ELIZABETE CARMO-SILVA et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

The BSD2 ortholog inChlamydomonas reinhardtiiis a polysome-associated chaperone that co-migrates on sucrose gradients with therbcLtranscript encoding the Rubisco large subunit

(2014) Lior Doron et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

β-Carboxysomal proteins assemble into highly organized structures inNicotianachloroplasts

(2014) Myat T. Lin et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

A protein with an inactive pterin-4a-carbinolamine dehydratase domain is required for Rubisco biogenesis in plants

(2014) Leila Feiz et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Comparing the in Vivo Function of  -Carboxysomes and  -Carboxysomes in Two Model Cyanobacteria

(2014) L. Whitehead et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The plastid ancestor originated among one of the major cyanobacterial lineages

(2014) Jesús A. G. Ochoa de Alda et al.   Nature Communications

A novel RNA binding protein affects rbcL gene expression and is specific to bundle sheath chloroplasts in C4 plants

(2013) Shaun M Bowman et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Genetic engineering of the chloroplast: novel tools and new applications

(2013) Ralph Bock   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Rubisco: still the most abundant protein of Earth?

(2013) John A. Raven   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Maintaining photosynthetic CO2 fixation via protein remodelling: the Rubisco activases

(2013) Oliver Mueller-Cajar et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Can phenotypic plasticity in Rubisco performance contribute to photosynthetic acclimation?

(2013) Amanda P. Cavanagh et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Improving Photosynthesis

(2013) J. R. Evans   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Regulatory Properties of Rubisco Activase Differ among Species and Affect Photosynthetic Induction during Light Transitions

(2013) A. E. Carmo-Silva et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

RNA processing and decay in plastids

(2013) Arnaud Germain et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-RNA

Chaperonin Cofactors, Cpn10 and Cpn20, of Green Algae and Plants Function as Hetero-oligomeric Ring Complexes

(2012) Yi-Chin C. Tsai et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Rubisco activity and regulation as targets for crop improvement

(2012) M. A. J. Parry et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Ribulose-1,5-Bis-Phosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase Accumulation Factor1 Is Required for Holoenzyme Assembly in Maize

(2012) L. Feiz et al.   PLANT CELL

Achieving yield gains in wheat

(2012) MATTHEW REYNOLDS et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

RNA binding and RNA remodeling activities of the half-a-tetratricopeptide (HAT) protein HCF107 underlie its effects on gene expression

(2012) K. Hammani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Food security and climate change: on the potential to adapt global crop production by active selection to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide

(2012) L. H. Ziska et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Development of C4 Rice: Current Progress and Future Challenges

(2012) S. von Caemmerer et al.   SCIENCE

2-Carboxy-D-arabinitol 1-phosphate (CA1P) phosphatase: evidence for a wider role in plant Rubisco regulation

(2011) Paul John Andralojc et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

The transcription machineries of plant mitochondria and chloroplasts: Composition, function, and regulation

(2011) Karsten Liere et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Large-Scale Phylogenomic Analyses Indicate a Deep Origin of Primary Plastids within Cyanobacteria

(2011) Alexis Criscuolo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Structure and function of the AAA+ protein CbbX, a red-type Rubisco activase

(2011) Oliver Mueller-Cajar et al.   NATURE

Molecular chaperones in protein folding and proteostasis

(2011) F. Ulrich Hartl et al.   NATURE

Structure of green-type Rubisco activase from tobacco

(2011) Mathias Stotz et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Crystal structure of a chaperone-bound assembly intermediate of form I Rubisco

(2011) Andreas Bracher et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Functional Incorporation of Sorghum Small Subunit Increases the Catalytic Turnover Rate of Rubisco in Transgenic Rice

(2011) C. Ishikawa et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Isoleucine 309 acts as a C4 catalytic switch that increases ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) carboxylation rate in Flaveria

(2011) S. M. Whitney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chloroplast RNA Metabolism

(2010) David B. Stern et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency for Greater Yield

(2010) Xin-Guang Zhu et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Role and regulation of plastid sigma factors and their functional interactors during chloroplast transcription – Recent lessons from Arabidopsis thaliana

(2010) Jennifer Schweer et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Functional Hybrid Rubisco Enzymes with Plant Small Subunits and Algal Large Subunits

(2010) Todor Genkov et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Changes in Rubisco Kinetics during the Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis in Flaveria (Asteraceae) Are Associated with Positive Selection on Genes Encoding the Enzyme

(2010) Maxim V. Kapralov et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Two Rubisco activase isoforms may play different roles in photosynthetic heat acclimation in the rice plant

(2010) Dun Wang et al.   PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM

MRL1, a Conserved Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein, Is Required for Stabilization of rbcL mRNA in Chlamydomonas and Arabidopsis

(2010) X. Johnson et al.   PLANT CELL

Enhancing C3 Photosynthesis

(2010) S. von Caemmerer et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Advancing Our Understanding and Capacity to Engineer Nature's CO2-Sequestering Enzyme, Rubisco

(2010) S. M. Whitney et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Hybrid Rubisco of tomato large subunits and tobacco small subunits is functional in tobacco plants

(2010) Xing-Hai Zhang et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Photorespiration: players, partners and origin

(2010) Hermann Bauwe et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Rubisco Oligomers Composed of Linked Small and Large Subunits Assemble in Tobacco Plastids and Have Higher Affinities for CO2 and O2

(2009) S. M. Whitney et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Evolving improvedSynechococcusRubisco functional expression inEscherichia coli

(2008) Oliver Mueller-Cajar et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Construction of a tobacco master line to improve Rubisco engineering in chloroplasts

(2008) Spencer M. Whitney et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

High Glycolate Oxidase Activity Is Required for Survival of Maize in Normal Air

(2008) I. Zelitch et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Structure and function of Rubisco

(2008) Inger Andersson et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY