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Franziska Otto

Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial MicrobiologyORCID 0009-0001-0867-2149Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Form IF Rubiscos include highly active, specific, and small subunit-independent enzymes.

Franziska Otto, Hendrik Westedt, Kevin P. Franzeck, Jan Zarzycki, Andreas M. Küffner, Luca Schulz, Simone Prinz, Nicole Paczia, P. Claus, Georg K. A. Hochberg, Tobias J. Erb

The paper identifies Form IF Rubiscos that are highly active, specific, and function without the small subunit, challenging the necessity of subunit complexity in Rubisco evolution.

bioRxiv · Mar 20, 2026 · PreprintBiochemistry