Intrinsically disordered CsoS2 acts as a general molecular thread for α-carboxysome shell assembly

Abstract Carboxysomes are a paradigm of self-assembling proteinaceous organelles found in nature, offering compartmentalisation of enzymes and pathways to enhance carbon fixation. In α-carboxysomes, the disordered linker protein CsoS2 plays an essential role in carboxysome assembly and Rubisco encapsulation. Its mechanism of action, however, is not fully understood. Here we synthetically engineered α-carboxysome shells using minimal shell components and determined cryoEM structures of these to decipher the principle of shell assembly and encapsulation. The structures reveal that the intrinsically disordered CsoS2 C-terminus is well-structured and acts as a universal “molecular thread” stitching through multiple shell protein interfaces. We further uncovered in CsoS2 a remarkable highly conserved repetitive key interaction motif, [IV]TG, which is critical to the shell assembly and architecture. Our study provides a general mechanism for the CsoS2-govern carboxysome shell assembly and cargo encapsulation and further advances synthetic engineering of carboxysomes for diverse biotechnological applications..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 23. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ni, Tao [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Qiuyao [VerfasserIn]
Ng, Pei Cing [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Dou, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Yanan [VerfasserIn]
Radecke, Julika [VerfasserIn]
Dykes, Gregory F. [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Fang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Lu-Ning [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Peijun [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.06.24.546370

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XBI039992810