Bacterial Nanocompartments: Structures, Functions, and Applications.

ABSTRACT: Increasing efficiency is an important driving force behind cellular organization and often achieved through compartmentalization. Long recognized as a core principle of eukaryotic cell organization, its widespread occurrence in prokaryotes has only recently come to light. Despite the early discovery of a few microcompartments, such as gas vesicles and carboxysomes, the vast majority of these structures in prokaryotes are less than 100 nm in diameter-too small for conventional light microscopy and electron microscopic thin sectioning. Consequently, these smaller nanocompartments have been discovered serendipitously and then through bioinformatics shown to be broadly distributed. Their small uniform size, robust self-assembly, high stability, excellent biocompatibility, and large cargo capac

SUBMITTER: McDowell HB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8923211 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature