Carboxysomes are a family of bacterial microcompartments (BMCs), present in all
cyanobacteria and some proteobacteria, which encapsulate the primary CO 2-fixing …

Many carbon‐fixing organisms have evolved CO2 concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) to
enhance the delivery of CO2 to RuBisCO, while minimizing reactions with the competitive …

Carboxysomes are a paradigm of self-assembling proteinaceous organelles found in nature,
offering compartmentalisation of enzymes and pathways to enhance carbon fixation. In α …

Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are organelles that segregate segments of metabolic
pathways which are incompatible with surrounding metabolism. BMCs consist of a …

Carboxysomes are bacterial microcompartments that encapsulate the enzymes RuBisCO
and carbonic anhydrase in a proteinaceous shell to enhance the efficiency of photosynthetic …

Despite the importance of microcompartments in prokaryotic biology and bioengineering,
structural heterogeneity has prevented a complete understanding of their architecture …

The carboxysome is a versatile paradigm of prokaryotic organelles and is a proteinaceous
self-assembling microcompartment that plays essential roles in carbon fixation in all …

Highlights•Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are self-assembling organelles comprising
a protein shell that encapsulates cargo enzymes.•Unraveling the composition and …

Highlights•Phylogenomic analysis of shell proteins uncovers supra-functional
relationships.•Alpha-carboxysome shell proteins arose independently from beta …

An important goal of systems and synthetic biology is to produce high value chemical
species in large quantities. Microcompartments, which are protein nanoshells encapsulating …