A catalog of the diversity and ubiquity of bacterial microcompartments

M Sutter, MR Melnicki, F Schulz, T Woyke… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are organelles that segregate segments of metabolic
pathways which are incompatible with surrounding metabolism. BMCs consist of a …

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 …

Bacterial microcompartments: tiny organelles with big potential

NW Kennedy, CE Mills, TM Nichols… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•MCPs are organelles uniquely suited for metabolic engineering
applications.•MCPs increase flux while protecting cells from toxic intermediates.•Insights into …

Diverse bacterial microcompartment organelles

C Chowdhury, S Sinha, S Chun… - Microbiology and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial microcompartments (MCPs) are sophisticated protein-based organelles used to
optimize metabolic pathways. They consist of metabolic enzymes encapsulated within a …

Bacterial microcompartments and the modular construction of microbial metabolism

CA Kerfeld, O Erbilgin - Trends in microbiology, 2015 - cell.com
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are protein-bound organelles predicted to be present
across 23 bacterial phyla. BMCs facilitate carbon fixation as well as the aerobic and …

Bacterial microcompartments

CA Kerfeld, S Heinhorst… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are organelles composed entirely of protein. They
promote specific metabolic processes by encapsulating and colocalizing enzymes with their …

[HTML][HTML] Protein stoichiometry, structural plasticity and regulation of bacterial microcompartments

LN Liu, M Yang, Y Sun, J Yang - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are self-assembling organelles comprising
a protein shell that encapsulates cargo enzymes.•Unraveling the composition and …

Bacterial microcompartments: widespread prokaryotic organelles for isolation and optimization of metabolic pathways

TA Bobik, BP Lehman, TO Yeates - Molecular microbiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Prokaryotes use subcellular compartments for a variety of purposes. An intriguing example
is a family of complex subcellular organelles known as bacterial microcompartments (MCP …

In vitro assembly of diverse bacterial microcompartment shell architectures

AR Hagen, JS Plegaria, N Sloan, B Ferlez… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are organelles composed of a selectively permeable
protein shell that encapsulates enzymes involved in CO2 fixation (carboxysomes) or carbon …

Biotechnological advances in bacterial microcompartment technology

MJ Lee, DJ Palmer, MJ Warren - Trends in biotechnology, 2019 - cell.com
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) represent proteinaceous macromolecular
nanobioreactors that are found in a broad range of bacteria, and which are associated with …