Engineering the bacterial microcompartment domain for molecular scaffolding applications

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue JUL, 2017, Pages

  Young, Eric J ^a,b   Burton, Rodney ^b   Mahalik, Jyoti P ^c   Sumpter, Bobby G ^c   Fuentes Cabrera, Miguel ^c   Kerfeld, Cheryl A ^a,b,d   Ducat, Daniel C ^a,b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial microcompartment; BMC; Metabolic engineering; Scaffold; Self assembly; Shell proteins; Spatial organization; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

METABOLIC ENGINEERING; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85026647251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01441     Document Type: Article

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