Journal: Nat Plants / Year: 2026 Title: Bottom-up reconstruction of synthetic pyrenoids provides insights into the mechanisms and evolution of carbon concentration by EPYC1 proteins. Authors: A M Küffner / B Pommerenke / L Kley / J Z Y Ng / S Prinz / M Tinzl-Zechner / L Schulz / P Claus / N Paczia / T Chotel / M Klose / J Zarzycki / G K A Hochberg / T J Erb / Abstract: Membraneless organelles play essential roles in many cellular processes. In various photosynthetic organisms, they are a crucial part of CO/carbon-concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) that increase ...Membraneless organelles play essential roles in many cellular processes. In various photosynthetic organisms, they are a crucial part of CO/carbon-concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) that increase photosynthetic productivity. One example is the pyrenoid in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a liquid-phase-separated organelle that localizes and improves CO fixation via the intrinsically disordered protein essential pyrenoid component 1 (EPYC1). Modern-day pyrenoids are complex structures with an elaborate cellular architecture and dozens of components, raising the question of how they could have developed from simpler condensates. Here we develop a bottom-up approach to study the function of EPYC1s and explore their sequence-function space across phylogenetic diversity and evolution. We demonstrate that extant and ancestral EPYC1 sequences induce phase separation of Rubisco into synthetic pyrenoids with functional CCMs. Surprisingly, these CCMs are mainly based on enhanced carboxylation rates (rather than increased specificity), offering new insights into the construction, function and evolution of natural and synthetic pyrenoids.
Mass: 18.015 Da / Num. of mol.: 155 / Source method: isolated from a natural source / Formula: H2O
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Method: X-RAY DIFFRACTION / Number of used crystals: 1
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Density Matthews: 2.14 Å3/Da / Density % sol: 42.49 %
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Temperature: 289 K / Method: vapor diffusion, sitting drop / pH: 6 Details: Inactive CbbM in 20 mM Tris buffer (pH 8.5), containing 100 mM NaCl was mixed with condition comprised of 1.2 M ammonium chloride, 100 mM MES (pH 6), 20 %(w/v) PEG6000 in a 1:1 ratio with a ...Details: Inactive CbbM in 20 mM Tris buffer (pH 8.5), containing 100 mM NaCl was mixed with condition comprised of 1.2 M ammonium chloride, 100 mM MES (pH 6), 20 %(w/v) PEG6000 in a 1:1 ratio with a final drop volume of 1 micro liter. The mother liquor was supplemented with 30% (v/v) PEG200, before the crystals were plunge frozen in liquid nitrogen
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Diffraction
Mean temperature: 100 K / Serial crystal experiment: N
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Source: SYNCHROTRON / Site: PETRA III, EMBL c/o DESY / Beamline: P13 (MX1) / Wavelength: 0.9762 Å
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