Signal sequences target enzymes and structural proteins to bacterial microcompartments and are critical for microcompartment formation
Elizabeth R. Johnson, Nolan W. Kennedy, Carolyn E. Mills, Shiqi Liang, Swetha Chandrasekar, Taylor M. Nichols, Grant A. Rybnicky, Danielle Tullman‐Ercek
This study investigates the role of signal sequences in bacterial microcompartment (MCP) assembly, showing that structural protein signal sequences are critical for MCP formation and that their deletion causes defects similar to full gene knockout.
mSphere · Apr 16, 2025Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology