Structural biology: Insights into bacterial microcompartments

Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 451 (2017).
doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.84

Author: Irene Vacca
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

Source: Nature Reviews Microbiology - July 13, 2017 Category: Microbiology Authors: Irene Vacca Tags: Research Highlight Source Type: research