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ArticleCommunications biology2024

The structural and functional analysis of mycobacteria cysteine desulfurase-loaded encapsulin.

Yanting Tang, Yanyan Liu, Mingjing Zhang, Weiqi Lan, Mengyuan Ma, Cheng Chen, Saibin Wu, Rong Chen, Yiran Yan, Lu Feng and 5 more

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Article in Communications biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Encapsulins: catalysis inside a shell.Current opinion in microbiology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors.

Yanting Tang *College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8656-3220
Yanyan Liu *College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Mingjing Zhang *Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Weiqi LanShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Mengyuan MaCollege of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Cheng ChenSchool of Life Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
Saibin WuCollege of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Rong ChenCollege of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Yiran YanShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China.
Lu FengCollege of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Ying LiCollege of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
Luke W GuddatSchool of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Yan GaoShanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China. gaoyan@shanghaitech.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-0364-6427
Xiang LiuCollege of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. liux@nankai.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-5498-6942
Zihe RaoCollege of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. raozh@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-9866-2384

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2022M711703National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32171259National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32201033
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Encapsulin nanocompartments loaded with dedicated cargo proteins via unique targeting peptides, play a key role in stress resistance, iron storage and natural product biosynthesis. Mmp1 and cysteine desulfurase (Enc-CD) have been identified as the most abundant representatives of family 2 encapsulin systems. However, the molecular assembly, catalytic mechanism, and physiological functions of the Mmp1 encapsulin system have not been studied in detail. Here we isolate and characterize an Enc-CD-loaded Mmp1 encapsulin system from Mycobacterium smegmatis mc

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Bacterial ProteinsCarbon-Sulfur LyasesCryoelectron MicroscopyCrystallography, X-RayModels, MolecularMycobacterium smegmatisProtein ConformationBacterial ProteinsCarbon-Sulfur Lyasescysteine desulfurase

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PMID39702509
PMCPMC11659603

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