Bacterial microcompartments: catalysis-enhancing metabolic modules for next generation metabolic and biomedical engineering
Henning Kirst, Cheryl A. Kerfeld
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90% confidenceMES research in membrane, bacteria. Abstract Bacterial cells have long been thought to be...
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Abstract Bacterial cells have long been thought to be simple cells with little spatial organization, but recent research has shown that they exhibit a remarkable degree of subcellular differentiation. Indeed, bacteria even have organelles such as magnetosomes for sensing magnetic fields or gas vesicles controlling cell buoyancy. A functionally diverse group of bacterial organelles are the bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) that fulfill specialized metabolic needs. Modification and reengineering of these BMCs enable innovative approaches for metabolic engineering and nanomedicine.
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- BMC Biology
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- 2019