Structural biology: Insights into bacterial microcompartments

Irene Vacca

Index: 10.1038/nrmicro.2017.84

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Abstract

Many bacteria have primitive proteinaceous organelles that are known as bacterial microcompartments (BMCs). All BMCs share a common architecture, with a selectively permeable protein shell that encapsulates different metabolic enzymes. Although detailed structural information is available for the single components of the shell, how the