| Range |
Shell protein CcmK ~5,000: RuBisCO ~2000 monomers/carboxysome
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| Organism |
Cyanobacteria Synechococcus WH8102 |
| Reference |
Savage DF, Afonso B, Chen AH, Silver PA. Spatially ordered dynamics of the bacterial carbon fixation machinery. Science. 2010 Mar 5 327(5970):1258-61 p.1258 right column 1st paragraphPubMed ID20203050
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| Primary Source |
Iancu CV, Ding HJ, Morris DM, Dias DP, Gonzales AD, Martino A, Jensen GJ. The structure of isolated Synechococcus strain WH8102 carboxysomes as revealed by electron cryotomography. J Mol Biol. 2007 Sep 21 372(3):764-73 p.770 left column bottom paragraphPubMed ID17669419
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| Method |
(Primary source) Electron Cryotomography |
| Comments |
~250 RuBisCo (octamers)/carboxysome given in primary source means ~2,000 monomers. Note-primary source refers to S. strain WH8102, Ref to S. elongatus PCC 7942 |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
105883 |