| Reference |
Price GD, Badger MR, Woodger FJ, Long BM. Advances in understanding the cyanobacterial CO2-concentrating-mechanism (CCM): functional components, Ci transporters, diversity, genetic regulation and prospects for engineering into plants. J Exp Bot. 2008 59(7):1441-61 p.1444 left column bottom paragraphPubMed ID17578868
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| Comments |
"Accumulated HCO3- is used in the generation of elevated
CO2 levels within specialized, Rubisco-containing, microcompartments
known as carboxysomes (Fig. 1). Carboxysomes
contain most, if not all, of the cellular Rubisco
content. These structures (90–250 nm in diameter,
depending on the cyanobacterial spp.) are proteinaceous,
polyhedral bodies featuring tightly packed Rubisco molecules
(L8S8) bounded by a thin protein shell of about
3 nm." |