Team:Oxford/what are microcompartments
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- | Microcompartments are proteinaceous capsules that have only recently been | + | Microcompartments are proteinaceous capsules that have only recently been recognised to exist in a wide range of bacteria. They contain enzymes required for a particular metabolic process. The carboxysome is a particularly well-studied example of a specialised microcompartment, and is shown here as a schematic diagram (S. Frank et al, 2013). |
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The Pdu microcompartment that we are using in our project is composed of several proteins encoded in an operon consisting of the genes pduA, -B, -T, -U, -N, -J, -K. These are expressed in various stoichiometries to form different polyhedral shapes with a diameter of 200-250 nm. The faces of the polyhedron are formed by the hexagonal shell proteins PduA, PduB, and PduJ, while PduN is thought to form the vertices (Joshua B. Parsons et al, 2010). | The Pdu microcompartment that we are using in our project is composed of several proteins encoded in an operon consisting of the genes pduA, -B, -T, -U, -N, -J, -K. These are expressed in various stoichiometries to form different polyhedral shapes with a diameter of 200-250 nm. The faces of the polyhedron are formed by the hexagonal shell proteins PduA, PduB, and PduJ, while PduN is thought to form the vertices (Joshua B. Parsons et al, 2010). |
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