Science Daily August 29, 2018
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) have huge potential in biotechnology. However, a key obstacle to their utilisation is the difficulty of targeting new pathways and processes into the BMC in a controllable fashion. Researchers in the UK redesigned a key surface component of the BMC that enables them to not only internalise proteins within the BMC but also display them on the surface of the organelle. This breakthrough could open the possibility of utilising these organelles for a wide variety of applications, including the generation of biofuels, as well as for drug delivery and vaccine development and coat nano-particles with proteins so that they can be used to generate vaccines… read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE