Increasing Plant Enzyme Efficiency May Hold Key To Global Warming

Global warming just may have met its match. In research recently completed at Emory University School of Medicine, scientists have discovered a mutant enzyme that could enable plants to use and convert carbon dioxide more quickly, effectively removing more greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere. The findings were published online on January 19 and will appear in the February issue of the journal “Protein Engineering Design and Selection.” Ichiro Matsumura, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry at Emory University School of Medicine, is the senior author and principal investigator. The first author is research specialist Monal R. Parikh.

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