🧬 What if we could rebuild nature's CO2-concentrating machinery from scratch? In my research in the Erb Lab, just published in Nature Plants, we reconstructed synthetic pyrenoids to understand how algae concentrate CO₂ for photosynthesis. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Let me break it down: 🧵👇
Bottom-up reconstruction of synthetic pyrenoids provides insights into the mechanisms and evolution of carbon concentration by EPYC1 proteins - Nature Plants
This study shows that the structural protein essential pyrenoid component 1 (EPYC1) and the enzyme Rubisco are sufficient to assemble into pyrenoid-like structures that are functionally active and sho...
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