Protein Structures Aren’t Set in Stone | Newswise: News for Journalists

Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab

Albert Lui (left) and Patrick Shih demonstrate how they studied the structure and evolution of rubisco, the enzyme that plants use to harness CO2 to create sugars, in Koshland Hall at UC Berkeley.

« Protein Structures Aren’t Set in Stone

Credit: Shih Lab/Berkeley Lab

A comparison of rubisco assemblies from different species, illustrating a wide range of structures including a dimer, tetramer, hexamer, octamer, and hexadecamer (16 unit protein).

« Protein Structures Aren’t Set in Stone

Credit: Albert Liu

Albert Liu checking some culture plates of E. coli with the genes to make form II rubisco.

« Protein Structures Aren’t Set in Stone

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