Life cycle of a cyanobacterial carboxysome

NC Hill, JW Tay, S Altus, DM Bortz, JC Cameron - Science Advances, 2020 - science.org
Carboxysomes, prototypical bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) found in cyanobacteria,
are large (~ 1 GDa) and essential protein complexes that enhance CO2 fixation. While …

Single-organelle quantification reveals stoichiometric and structural variability of carboxysomes dependent on the environment

Y Sun, AJM Wollman, F Huang, MC Leake… - The Plant …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The carboxysome is a complex, proteinaceous organelle that plays essential roles in carbon
assimilation in cyanobacteria and chemoautotrophs. It comprises hundreds of protein …

Advances in the bacterial organelles for CO2 fixation

LN Liu - Trends in Microbiology, 2022 - cell.com
Carboxysomes are a family of bacterial microcompartments (BMCs), present in all
cyanobacteria and some proteobacteria, which encapsulate the primary CO 2-fixing …

Superresolution microscopy of the β-carboxysome reveals a homogeneous matrix

MJ Niederhuber, TJ Lambert, C Yapp… - Molecular biology of …, 2017 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Carbon fixation in cyanobacteria makes a major contribution to the global carbon cycle. The
cyanobacterial carboxysome is a proteinaceous microcompartment that protects and …

The structure of CcmP, a tandem bacterial microcompartment domain protein from the β-carboxysome, forms a subcompartment within a microcompartment

F Cai, M Sutter, JC Cameron, DN Stanley… - Journal of Biological …, 2013 - ASBMB
The carboxysome is a bacterial organelle found in all cyanobacteria; it encapsulates CO 2
fixation enzymes within a protein shell. The most abundant carboxysome shell protein …

[HTML][HTML] Biogenesis of a bacterial organelle: the carboxysome assembly pathway

JC Cameron, SC Wilson, SL Bernstein, CA Kerfeld - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The carboxysome is a protein-based organelle for carbon fixation in cyanobacteria,
keystone organisms in the global carbon cycle. It is composed of thousands of subunits …

Carboxysomes: metabolic modules for CO2 fixation

A Turmo, CR Gonzalez-Esquer… - FEMS microbiology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The carboxysome is a bacterial microcompartment encapsulating the enzymes carbonic
anhydrase and ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. As the site of CO2 …

New discoveries expand possibilities for carboxysome engineering

JS Borden, DF Savage - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Carboxysomes are CO 2-fixing protein compartments present in all cyanobacteria and some
proteobacteria. These structures are attractive candidates for carbon assimilation …

Identification and structural analysis of a novel carboxysome shell protein with implications for metabolite transport

MG Klein, P Zwart, SC Bagby, F Cai… - Journal of molecular …, 2009 - Elsevier
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are polyhedral bodies, composed entirely of proteins,
that function as organelles in bacteria; they promote subcellular processes by encapsulating …

Engineering and Modulating Functional Cyanobacterial CO2-Fixing Organelles

Y Fang, F Huang, M Faulkner, Q Jiang… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are proteinaceous organelles widespread among
bacterial phyla and provide a means for compartmentalizing specific metabolic pathways …