carboxysome
Sign in to saveright|thumb|460px|Electron micrographs showing alpha-carboxysomes from the chemoautotrophic bacterium Halothiobacillus|Halothiobacillus neapolitanus: (A) arranged within the cell, and (B) intact upon isolation. Scale bars indicate 100 nm.
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Architecture
- Shell proteins
- Scaffold proteins
- Two types of carboxysomes
- Alpha-carboxysomes
- Beta-carboxysomes
- Potential uses of the carboxysome in biotechnology
- Carboxysome reviews (by year)
- See also
- References
- External links
right|thumb|460px|Electron micrographs showing alpha-carboxysomes from the chemoautotrophic bacterium Halothiobacillus|Halothiobacillus neapolitanus: (A) arranged within the cell, and (B) intact upon isolation. Scale bars indicate 100 nm.
Carboxysomes are bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) consisting of polyhedral protein shells filled with the enzymes ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO)—the predominant enzyme in carbon fixation and the rate limiting enzyme in the Calvin cycle—and carbonic anhydrase.
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