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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Biochem Sci. 2021 Jan 11;46(5):406–416. doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2020.12.002

Figure 1: Mechanistic diagram of typical bacterial microcompartments (MCPs).

Figure 1:

A) Schematic of a carboxysome. Relevant enzymes are italicized. The function of the carboxysome is to concentrate CO2 near RuBisCO to improve its catalytic efficiency and reduce photorespiration. B) Schematic of a generic metabolosome. Relevant enzymes are italicized. Most if not all metabolosomes are thought to sequester aldehyde intermediates which are toxic or volatile and subject to diffusive loss.