Engineered synthetic scaffolds for organizing proteins within the bacterial cytoplasm
December 11th, 2017 by Matthew J Lee
Engineered synthetic scaffolds for organizing proteins within the bacterial cytoplasm
Engineered synthetic scaffolds for organizing proteins within the bacterial cytoplasm, Published online: 11 December 2017; doi:10.1038/nchembio.2535
Two complementary coiled-coil peptides and a bacterial microcompartment shell protein are combined to construct cytoscaffolds within Escherichia coli cells. Targeting enzymes to the cytoplasmic scaffold results in colocalization and improved metabolic flux.