Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
英国
Wellcome Trust
英国
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ジャーナル: Nat Commun / 年: 2023 タイトル: Intrinsically disordered CsoS2 acts as a general molecular thread for α-carboxysome shell assembly. 著者: Tao Ni / Qiuyao Jiang / Pei Cing Ng / Juan Shen / Hao Dou / Yanan Zhu / Julika Radecke / Gregory F Dykes / Fang Huang / Lu-Ning Liu / Peijun Zhang / 要旨: Carboxysomes are a paradigm of self-assembling proteinaceous organelles found in nature, offering compartmentalisation of enzymes and pathways to enhance carbon fixation. In α-carboxysomes, the ...Carboxysomes are a paradigm of self-assembling proteinaceous organelles found in nature, offering compartmentalisation of enzymes and pathways to enhance carbon fixation. In α-carboxysomes, the disordered linker protein CsoS2 plays an essential role in carboxysome assembly and Rubisco encapsulation. Its mechanism of action, however, is not fully understood. Here we synthetically engineer α-carboxysome shells using minimal shell components and determine cryoEM structures of these to decipher the principle of shell assembly and encapsulation. The structures reveal that the intrinsically disordered CsoS2 C-terminus is well-structured and acts as a universal "molecular thread" stitching through multiple shell protein interfaces. We further uncover in CsoS2 a highly conserved repetitive key interaction motif, [IV]TG, which is critical to the shell assembly and architecture. Our study provides a general mechanism for the CsoS2-governed carboxysome shell assembly and cargo encapsulation and further advances synthetic engineering of carboxysomes for diverse biotechnological applications.