Prokaryotic nanocompartments form synthetic organelles in a eukaryote

Yu Heng Lau; Tobias W. Giessen; Wiggert J. Altenburg; Pamela A. Silver

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03768-x

Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Prokaryotic nanocompartments form synthetic organelles in a eukaryote

Yu Heng Lau,
Tobias W. Giessen,
Wiggert J. Altenburg,
Pamela A. Silver

Affiliations

Yu Heng Lau: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Tobias W. Giessen: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Wiggert J. Altenburg: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
Pamela A. Silver: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03768-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Compartmentalization of proteins can potentially increase the productivity of engineered metabolic pathways. Here the authors use encapsulins to build non-endogenous organelles in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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