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US 10,479,999 B2Granted
Engineered shell proteins for microcompartment shell electron transfer and catalysis
AssigneeBoard of Trustees of Michigan State University
InventorsCheryl A. Kerfeld, Clement Aussignargues
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Abstract
Described herein are bacterial microcompartments shell proteins modified to stably incorporate iron-sulfur clusters. Such bacterial microcompartments shell proteins exhibit redox cycling and confer electron transfer functionality to bacterial microcompartment shells.
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A bacterial microcompartment comprising a S55C-modified BMC-T1 polypeptide with a cysteine at position 55 and with at least 97% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:3.
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