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Effect of metabolosome encapsulation peptides on enzyme activity, coaggregation, incorporation, and bacterial microcompartment formation

Juodeikis, R; Lee, MJ; Mayer, M; Mantell, J; Brown, IR; Verkade, P; Woolfson, DN; ... Warren, MJ; + view all (2020) Effect of metabolosome encapsulation peptides on enzyme activity, coaggregation, incorporation, and bacterial microcompartment formation. MicrobiologyOpen , 9 (5) , Article e1010. 10.1002/mbo3.1010. Green open access

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Abstract

Metabolosomes, catabolic bacterial microcompartments (BMCs), are proteinaceous organelles that are associated with the breakdown of metabolites such as propanediol and ethanolamine. They are composed of an outer multicomponent protein shell that encases a specific metabolic pathway. Protein cargo found within BMCs is directed by the presence of an encapsulation peptide that appears to trigger aggregation before the formation of the outer shell. We investigated the effect of three distinct encapsulation peptides on foreign cargo in a recombinant BMC system. Our data demonstrate that these peptides cause variations in enzyme activity and protein aggregation. We observed that the level of protein aggregation generally correlates with the size of metabolosomes, while in the absence of cargo BMCs self‐assemble into smaller compartments. The results agree with a flexible model for BMC formation based around the ability of the BMC shell to associate with an aggregate formed due to the interaction of encapsulation peptides.

Type: Article
Title: Effect of metabolosome encapsulation peptides on enzyme activity, coaggregation, incorporation, and bacterial microcompartment formation
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.1010
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1010
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2020 The Authors. MicrobiologyOpen published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: bacterial organelles, cargo, protein aggregation, synthetic biology, targeting
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10099048
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