Hey everybody!
Thanks to my wonderful friend, Irena, this account will now have multiple personalities.
So for this post, I’m Michael, and after weeks of many difficulties, I think I finally found a protein!
Rubisco (ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase)!
A lot of my classes have dealt with the carbon cycle, so I’m pretty interested in Rubisco’s role in converting inorganic carbon dioxide into organic carbon through carbon fixation. This process happens REALLY SLOW, making it the most abundant single enzyme on Earth to compensate its inefficiency. I also found this article of some scientists looking increase Rubisco’s carbon dioxide conversion rate so that plants are more efficient at sequestering carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.