• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1113397
Corpus ID: 24561197

Protein Structures Forming the Shell of Primitive Bacterial Organelles

@article{Kerfeld2005ProteinSF,
  title={Protein Structures Forming the Shell of Primitive Bacterial Organelles},
  author={C. Kerfeld and M. Sawaya and S. Tanaka and C. V. Nguyen and M. Phillips and M. Beeby and T. Yeates},
  journal={Science},
  year={2005},
  volume={309},
  pages={936 - 938}
}

C. Kerfeld, M. Sawaya, +4 authors T. Yeates

Published 2005

Biology, Medicine

Science

Bacterial microcompartments are primitive organelles composed entirely of protein subunits. Genomic sequence databases reveal the widespread occurrence of microcompartments across diverse microbes. The prototypical bacterial microcompartment is the carboxysome, a protein shell for sequestering carbon fixation reactions. We report three-dimensional crystal structures of multiple carboxysome shell proteins, revealing a hexameric unit as the basic microcompartment building block and showing how… CONTINUE READING

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