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Ribulose diphosphate carboxylase enzyme catalyses the carboxylation reaction between:
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CO2 and ribulose 1,5 diphosphate
The first step of the Calvin cycle is carboxylation in which enzyme RuBisCO enzyme catalyses the fixation of CO2, in which initial CO2 acceptor is a 5C compound ribulose 1,5 diphosphate. It forms first stable compound, which is 3C PGA.
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