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ArticleMicrobiology (Reading, England)2019

Engineering the PduT shell protein to modify the permeability of the 1,2-propanediol microcompartment of

Chiranjit Chowdhury, Thomas A Bobik

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Article in Microbiology (Reading, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Chemical reviews · 2026
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  2. Delay-facilitated self-assembly in compartmentalized systems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  4. Electrochemical cofactor recycling of bacterial microcompartments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Chiranjit ChowdhuryPresent address: Amity Institute of Molecular Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Amity University Campus, Sector-125, Noida, UP-201313, India.
Thomas A BobikRoy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA.
Iowa State University · US

Funding

Dissecting the structure, function, and mechanisms of diverse protein-based metabolic organelles in bacteriaR01AI081146 · NIAID · IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BOBIK, THOMAS AQUINAS, YEATES, TODD O · 2009 to 2022
$6.5M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI081146
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial microcompartments (MCPs) are protein-based organelles that consist of metabolic enzymes encapsulated within a protein shell. The function of MCPs is to optimize metabolic pathways by increasing reaction rates and sequestering toxic pathway intermediates. A substantial amount of effort has been directed toward engineering synthetic MCPs as intracellular nanoreactors for the improved production of renewable chemicals. A key challenge in this area is engineering protein shells that allow the entry of desired substrates. In this study, we used site-directed mutagenesis of the PduT shell protein to remove its central iron-sulfur cluster and create openings (pores) in the shell of the Pdu MCP that have varied chemical properties. Subsequently,

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AldehydesBacterial ProteinsCulture MediaModels, BiologicalModels, MolecularMutagenesis, Site-DirectedMutationNADOrganellesPermeabilityPropylene GlycolSalmonellaAldehydesBacterial ProteinsCulture MediaNADpropionaldehydePropylene GlycolcarboxysomemicrocompartmentSalmonellavitamin B12

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PMID31674899
PMCPMC7137781
OpenAlexW2985891424

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