| Range |
~250 molecules/carboxysome
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| Organism |
Halothiobacillus neapolitanus |
| Reference |
Cheng S, Liu Y, Crowley CS, Yeates TO, Bobik TA. Bacterial microcompartments: their properties and paradoxes. Bioessays. 2008 Nov30(11-12):1084-95. doi: 10.1002/bies.20830. p.1087 right column 3rd paragraphPubMed ID18937343
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| Primary Source |
Schmid MF, Paredes AM, Khant HA, Soyer F, Aldrich HC, et al. 2006. Structure of Halothiobacillus neapolitanus carboxysomes by cryoelectron tomography. J Mol Biol 364: 526–535. & Kaneko Y, Danev R, Nagayama K, Nakamoto H. 2006. Intact carboxysomes in a cyanobacterial cell visualized by hilbert differential contrast transmission electron microscopy. J Bacteriol 188: 805–818.PubMed ID17028023, 16385071
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| Comments |
"About 250 RuBisCO molecules could be visualized
per carboxysome arranged in 3–4 concentric layers, but well defined
interactions between the RuBisCO subunits and the
shell were not evident.(primary sources)" |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
109884 |