Fig. 3.
Comparing the catalytic relationships of diatom and other Form I Rubiscos. Comparison of (A) maximum carboxylation rate (k cat c) versus the K m for CO2 (K C), (B) K C versus the K m for O2 (K O), (C) the carboxylation efficiency (k cat c/K C) versus specificity for CO2 over O2 (SC/O), and (D) the maximum oxygenation rate (k cat o) and K O. Measured for diatoms (black circles) and compared with the compilation of plants and eukaryotic algae from Savir et al. (2010), Badger et al. (1998), Whitney et al. (2011), and Galmes et al. (2014) (gray circles).