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Title: Carboxysomes: metabolic modules for CO2 fixation

Journal Article · · FEMS Microbiology Letters (Online)
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  1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Berkeley Synthetic Biology Inst., CA (United States)

The carboxysome is a bacterial microcompartment encapsulating the enzymes carbonic anhydrase and ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. As the site of CO2 fixation, it serves an essential role in the carbon dioxide concentrating mechanism of many chemoautotrophs and all cyanobacteria. Carboxysomes and other bacterial microcompartments self-assemble through specific protein–protein interactions that are typically mediated by conserved protein domains. In this review, we frame our current understanding of carboxysomes in the context of their component protein domains with their inherent function as the ‘building blocks’ of carboxysomes. These building blocks are organized in genetic modules (conserved chromosomal loci) that encode for carboxysomes and ancillary proteins essential for the integration of the organelle with the rest of cellular metabolism. This conceptual framework provides the foundation for ‘plug-and-play’ engineering of carboxysomes as CO2 fixation modules in a variety of biotechnological applications.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396; FG02-91ER20021; E0007089; EE0007089
OSTI ID:
1409782
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1843736
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-25514
Journal Information:
FEMS Microbiology Letters (Online), Vol. 364, Issue 18; ISSN 1574-6968
Publisher:
Federation of European Microbiological SocietiesCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 59 works
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