Bacterial microcompartments: Their properties and paradoxes

BioEssays

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 1084-1095

  Cheng, Shouqiang ^a   Liu, Yu ^a   Crowley, Christopher S ^b   Yeates, Todd O ^b   Bobik, Thomas A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMICS; HALOTHIOBACILLUS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCYSTIS; VIRUS CAPSID; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PERMEABILITY; SALMONELLA; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MIRIDAE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON DIOXIDE; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; ORGANELLES; OXYGEN; PEPTIDES; PERMEABILITY; PROTEINS; SALMONELLA;

EID: 58149173410     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20830     Document Type: Review

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