Explore the mechanism

References

RUBISCO WEB SITES

The Photosynthetic process -Whitmarsh and Govindjee (Department of Plant Biology and Center of Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). A good introduction to photosynthesis, which puts the role of Rubisco into context.

Photosynthesis and the Worldwide Web -Larry Orr and Govindjee

What is Photosynthesis? -an up-dated and extensive list of sites which help explain photosynthesis

Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
 

Sites dealing specifically with Rubisco [top]

Rubisco Phylogeny and the Evolution of Carbon Fixation  - Rampant Horizontal Transfer and Duplication of Rubisco Genes in Eubacteria and Plastids (a pdf file)

R Bergmann's sophisticated Chime presentation (Universität Hamburg - Institut für Allgemeine Botanik und Botanischer Garten ) gives a good introduction to the structure of Rubisco and also looks at the mechanism. The position of the active site is shown particularly well and the discussion of the mechanism shows the hydrogen atoms in Chime!

Source of the 'poposed mechanism.gif ' used in these pages. A site under construction at Uppsala which, hopefully will contain much interesting material on Rubisco

KCX (other examples of proteins which contain lysine modified to form a carbamate as part of the active site.)

Robust Plants' Secret? Rubisco Activase!

Rubisco Activase in Plant Physiology Online

CO₂ Concentration Mechanisms in Microorganisms  Aaron Kaplan and Leonora Reinhold   a pdf file

  See the Project for Biologocal CO2 Fixation and Utilization at the RITE organisation Japan

GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE on CO2-Fixation and Metabolism in Green Plants: Queen's College Oxford, UK September 12-17, 1999

Kinemages [top]

Schreudr.kin 
Lee.kin
2Zhang.kin
Mande.kin For comparison with TIM

All available for download at  http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/downloads/kinfiles/ProtSci/vol2/

( .kin files open with Mage )

Details of PDB data [top]

Enter the PDB codes 1AA1 1AUS  1RCX  1RXO  8RUC  into the search page at PDBsum

Chime Resources [top]

Gateways to the many excellent Chime resources will be found at the home pages of Eric Martz and Gale Rhodes

Indexes which link to this site [top]

Photosynthesis and the Web- 2008 Life Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  http://www.life.uiuc.edu/govindjee/photoweb/   and at Arizona state University http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/photoweb/default.html

Photosynthesis group at  Göteborg University Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
and  http://www.bcbp.gu.se/~orjan/links.html 

World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources (San Diego Supercomputer Center) http://molvis.sdsc.edu/visres/ready-to-use/titles.jsp 

 http://www.nfh.uit.no/phaeocystis/marisco/Link.htm  at   Marisco (Improving Arable Production Systems By Expressing Marine Algal Rubisco In Crop Plants) is a EU-financed research project organized from: The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala (SLU) by Professor. Inger Andersson (see http://www.nfh.uit.no/phaeocystis/marisco/Partners.htm  )

Last updated Sept 2003