Purification and Characterization of Protein Nanotubes Assembled from a Single Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Subunit | Zendy

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Purification and Characterization of Protein Nanotubes Assembled from a Single Bacterial Microcompartment Shell Subunit

Author(s) -

Noël Christopher R.,

Cai Fei,

Kerfeld Cheryl A.

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

advanced materials interfaces

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.671

H-Index - 65

ISSN - 2196-7350

DOI - 10.1002/admi.201500295

Subject(s) - mycobacterium smegmatis , escherichia coli , protein subunit , nanotechnology , biomaterial , computational biology , component (thermodynamics) , materials science , biology , biochemistry , physics , gene , mycobacterium tuberculosis , medicine , tuberculosis , pathology , thermodynamics

Bacterial microcompartment (BMC) nanotubes are isolated and characterized for the first time. RmmH, a component of the Mycobacterium smegmatis BMC shell, self‐assembles into protein nanotubes when expressed in Escherichia coli or by concentrating purified RmmH in vitro. BMC nanotubes offer a new biomaterial and spatial architecture that may be genetically or chemically modified and used as a molecular scaffold.

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