Variety of size and form of GRM2 bacterial microcompartment particles

EE Cesle, A Filimonenko, K Tars, G Kalnins - Protein Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are bacterial organelles involved in enzymatic
processes, such as carbon fixation, choline, ethanolamine and propanediol degradation …

Symmetry breaking and structural polymorphism in a bacterial microcompartment shell protein for choline utilization

JM Ochoa, VN Nguyen, M Nie, MR Sawaya… - Protein …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial microcompartments are protein‐based organelles that carry out specialized
metabolic functions in diverse bacteria. Their outer shells are built from several thousand …

Functionalization of bacterial microcompartment shell interior with cysteine containing peptides enhances the iron and cobalt loading capacity

G Kalnins, M Bertins, A Viksna, K Tars - BioMetals, 2024 - Springer
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are prokaryotic organelles involved in several
biochemical processes in bacterial cells. These cellular substructures consist of an …

A catalog of the diversity and ubiquity of metabolic organelles in bacteria

M Sutter, MR Melnicki, F Schulz, T Woyke, CA Kerfeld - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are organelles that segregate segments of metabolic
pathways that are incompatible with the surrounding metabolism. These metabolic modules …

[HTML][HTML] Microcompartment assembly around multicomponent fluid cargoes

L Tsidilkovski, F Mohajerani, MF Hagan - The Journal of chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This article describes dynamical simulations of the assembly of an icosahedral protein shell
around a bicomponent fluid cargo. Our simulations are motivated by bacterial …

Manipulating microcompartment operons to study mechanism and function

JW Wilson - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2021 - Elsevier
The gene systems that encode functional bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are typically
comprised of between 10–23 genes, often in a contiguous operon. BMC genes can be …

Density-based binning of gene clusters to infer function or evolutionary history using GeneGrouper

AG McFarland, NW Kennedy, CE Mills… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Identifying variant forms of gene clusters of interest in phylogenetically proximate
and distant taxa can help to infer their evolutionary histories and functions. Conserved gene …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative Pore Structure and Dynamics for Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Protein Assemblies in Sheets or Shells

S Raza, D Sarkar, LJG Chan, J Mae, M Sutter… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are protein-bound organelles found in some bacteria
which encapsulate enzymes for enhanced catalytic activity. These compartments spatially …

Integrative in vivo analysis of the ethanolamine utilization bacterial microcompartment in Escherichia coli.

D Jallet, V Soldan, R Shayan, A Stella, N Ismail… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are self-assembling protein megacomplexes that
encapsulate metabolic pathways. Although approximately 20% of sequenced bacterial …

Structural characterization of hexameric shell proteins from two types of choline-utilization bacterial microcompartments

JM Ochoa, O Mijares, AA Acosta, X Escoto… - … Section F: Structural …, 2021 - scripts.iucr.org
Bacterial microcompartments are large supramolecular structures comprising an outer
proteinaceous shell that encapsulates various enzymes in order to optimize metabolic …