Why does rubisco make up about half of the protein content in a typical chloroplast?
A) most of the enzyme is in an oxidized state, waiting for the production of NADPH to reactivate it
B) it has an extremely high Km for CO2, thus a large number of enzymes increased the chance of substrate binding
C) since oxygen is also a substrate, those enzymes that bind oxygen are sequestered
D) it is a very inefficient enzyme, catalyzing only three reactions per second
E) none of the above
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