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SUBMITTER: Yamada K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6859733 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yamada Kana K Davydov Iakov I II Besnard Guillaume G Salamin Nicolas N
Journal of experimental botany 20191101 21
Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO) is considered to be the main enzyme determining the rate of photosynthesis. The small subunit of the protein, encoded by the rbcS gene, has been shown to influence the catalytic efficiency, CO2 specificity, assembly, activity, and stability of RuBisCO. However, the evolution of the rbcS gene remains poorly studied. We inferred the phylogenetic tree of the rbcS gene in angiosperms using the nucleotide sequences and found that it is compose ...[more]