Advances in the bacterial organelles for CO2 fixation

• Published in: Trends in microbiology (Regular ed.) Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 567 - 580
• Main Author: Liu, Lu-Ning
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2022; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Bacteria; bacterial microcompartment; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide fixation; Carboxylation; carboxysome; CO2 fixation; CO2-concentrating mechanisms; Cyanobacteria; Fixation; organelle; Organelles; Photorespiration; Proteobacteria; Ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase; self-assembly; synthetic biology; self-assembly; synthetic biology; bacterial microcompartment; organelle; CO2-concentrating mechanisms; CO2 fixation; carboxysome

Carboxysomes are a family of bacterial microcompartments (BMCs), present in all cyanobacteria and some proteobacteria, which encapsulate the primary CO2-fixing enzyme, Rubisco, within a virus-like polyhedral protein shell. Carboxysomes provide significantly elevated levels of CO2 around Rubisco to m...