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1 Overview
- Rubisco is apparently a cool protein
- Most abundant protein in the world
- Enzyme that is very slow, which is why plants make so much of it
- Rubisco in pop science
2 Slide Intro
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3 Carbon Fixation
- Turning carbon from the air into carbohydrates
- Combines carbon from \(CO_2\), light, and water to get carbohydrates
- \(6CO_2 + 6H_2O + light = \text{carbs}\) # Faults
- Rubisco sometimes accidentally binds oxygen to a sugar chain in a
process called photorespiration
- The cell actually has to expend more energy to fix this mistake
- Also it's like really really slow, processing around 3 reactions per second instead of other enzymes which often process thousands
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