Encapsulation mechanisms and structural studies of GRM2 bacterial microcompartment particles

G Kalnins, EE Cesle, J Jansons, J Liepins… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are prokaryotic organelles consisting of a protein shell
and an encapsulated enzymatic core. BMCs are involved in several biochemical processes …

The protein shells of bacterial microcompartment organelles

TO Yeates, MC Thompson, TA Bobik - Current opinion in structural biology, 2011 - Elsevier
Details are emerging on the structure and function of a remarkable class of capsid-like
protein assemblies that serve as simple metabolic organelles in many bacteria. These …

Assembly of robust bacterial microcompartment shells using building blocks from an organelle of unknown function

JK Lassila, SL Bernstein, JN Kinney, SD Axen… - Journal of Molecular …, 2014 - Elsevier
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) sequester enzymes from the cytoplasmic environment
by encapsulation inside a selectively permeable protein shell. Bioinformatic analyses …

Structural characterization of a synthetic tandem-domain bacterial microcompartment shell protein capable of forming icosahedral shell assemblies

M Sutter, S McGuire, B Ferlez, CA Kerfeld - ACS synthetic biology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Bacterial microcompartments are subcellular compartments found in many prokaryotes; they
consist of a protein shell that encapsulates enzymes that perform a variety of functions. The …

The shells of BMC-type microcompartment organelles in bacteria

TO Yeates, J Jorda, TA Bobik - Journal of molecular microbiology and …, 2013 - karger.com
Bacterial microcompartments are large proteinaceous structures that act as metabolic
organelles in many bacterial cells. A shell or capsid, which is composed of a few thousand …

Bacterial microcompartment organelles: protein shell structure and evolution

TO Yeates, CS Crowley, S Tanaka - Annual review of biophysics, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Some bacteria contain organelles or microcompartments consisting of a large virion-like
protein shell encapsulating sequentially acting enzymes. These organized …

Bacterial microcompartments

CA Kerfeld, C Aussignargues, J Zarzycki… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are self-assembling organelles that consist of an
enzymatic core that is encapsulated by a selectively permeable protein shell. The potential …

Two‐dimensional crystals of carboxysome shell proteins recapitulate the hexagonal packing of three‐dimensional crystals

KA Dryden, CS Crowley, S Tanaka, TO Yeates… - Protein …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are large intracellular bodies that serve as simple
organelles in many bacteria. They are proteinaceous structures composed of key enzymes …

The plasticity of molecular interactions governs bacterial microcompartment shell assembly

BJ Greber, M Sutter, CA Kerfeld - Structure, 2019 - cell.com
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are composed of an enzymatic core encapsulated by
a selectively permeable protein shell that enhances catalytic efficiency. Many pathogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Recent structural insights into bacterial microcompartment shells

JM Ochoa, TO Yeates - Current opinion in microbiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Sequence and topological variation in shell proteins lead to specialization.•
Microcompartment shells proteins have varied quaternary structures.•A new online database …