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    Carboxysomes are bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) consisting of polyhedral protein shells filled with the enzymes ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase...
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    in metabolic pathways, and protein complexes such as proteasomes and carboxysomes that enclose and separate parts of the cytosol. The term "cytosol" was...
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    to carboxysomes. The term metabolosome is used to refer to such catabolic BMCs (in contrast to the autotrophic carboxysome). Although the carboxysome, propanediol...
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  • revealed that at least some prokaryotes have microcompartments, such as carboxysomes. These subcellular compartments are 100–200 nm in diameter and are enclosed...
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    number of pentagons and hexagons. Protein enclosing bacterial organelles carboxysome is also made up of pentameric protein. Synthetic pentameric proteins...
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    the widespread prevalence of the bacterial microcompartments known as carboxysomes, which co-operate with active transporters of CO2 and bicarbonate, in...
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    the carboxysome, releases CO2 from dissolved hydrocarbonate ions (HCO− 3). Before the CO2 can diffuse out, RuBisCO concentrated within the carboxysome quickly...
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    in a few chemolithotrophs and marine cyanobacteria that contain cso-carboxysomes. Recent 3-dimensional analyses suggest that ζ-CA bears some structural...
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    which compartmentalise aspects of bacterial metabolism, such as the carboxysome. Additionally, bacteria have a multi-component cytoskeleton to control...
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    carbohydrate-enclosed microcompartments, which have distinct physiological roles (e.g. carboxysomes or gas vacuoles). Most prokaryotes are between 1 μm and 10 μm, but they...
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