InterPro domain: IPR037494

General Information

  • Identifier IPR037494
  • Description Rubisco accumulation factor 1
  • Number of genes 129
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Abstract

Ribulose-1,5-bis-phosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) is the rate-limiting carbon fixing enzyme of photosynthesis. Rubisco is a complex of eight large (RbcL) and eight small (RbcS) subunits that requires assembly chaperones. Rubisco accumulation factor 1 (Raf1) acts during Rubisco assembly [ 1 ]. It acts downstream of chaperonin-assisted RbcL folding by stabilizing RbcL antiparallel dimers for assembly into RbcL8 complexes with four Raf1 dimers bound. Raf1 displacement by RbcS results in holoenzyme formation [ 2 ].


1. Ribulose-1,5-bis-phosphate carboxylase/oxygenase accumulation factor1 is required for holoenzyme assembly in maize. Plant Cell 24, 3435-46
2. Structure and mechanism of the Rubisco-assembly chaperone Raf1. Nat. Struct. Mol. Biol. 22, 720-8

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