Cryo-EM structure of heterologous protein complex loaded thermotoga maritima encapsulin capsid

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Encapsulin is a class of nanocompartments that is unique in bacteria and archaea to confine enzymatic activities and sequester toxic reaction products. Here we present a 2.87 Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Thermotoga maritima encapsulin with heterologous protein complex loaded. It is the first successful case of expressing encapsulin and heterologous cargo protein in the insect cell system. Although we failed to reconstruct the cargo protein complex structure due to the signal interference of the capsid shell, we were able to observe some unique features of the cargo-loaded encapsulin shell, for example, an extra density at the fivefold pore that has not been reported before. These results would lead to a more complete understanding of the encapsulin cargo assembly process of T. maritima.

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Xiong, X., Sun, C., Vago, F. S., Klose, T., Zhu, J., & Jiang, W. (2020). Cryo-EM structure of heterologous protein complex loaded thermotoga maritima encapsulin capsid. Biomolecules, 10(9), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10091342

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