Studies on the last enzymes in Bchl and Chl biosynthesis

ISBN-13: 9783659716515 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 92 str.

Qi Cheng; Wenli Sun; Silvio Nascimento

Opis

Chlorophyll/bacteriochlorophyll is vital for bridging Sun (energy) and life on the Earth via the process of carbon fixing photosynthesis carried out by plants and some microbes. Therefore, it might not be surprising that the mass production of this porphyrin molecule could be number one in the right season. The enzymes described in this book play rate-limiting roles in the biosynthesis pathway(s). Additionally, one of our purposes to review this studies is to focus on comparitive and evolutionary relations between key catalysts, such as DPOR and LPOR, and catalyst involved in another essential process called biological nitrogen fixation which is able to convert inert atmospheric nitrogen gas to organic ammonia as ultimate nitrogen source for life on the Earth. The origin and convergance evolution of DPOR and nitrogenase, leads to our current structural elucidation of LPOR and imagination of the existance of possible other versions of not-yet-discovered nitrogenase.

O autorze

Prof.Dr.Qi Cheng has been working on nitrogen fixation biochemistry and evolution of related enzymes for nearly three decades. There's been exciting comparative researches proposed and largely carried out by Qi who got his PhD with Ray Dixon at John Innes Centre, Pdoc with Alison Smith at University of Cambridge, UK. SWL is Qi's Pdoc, SN is student