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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2021 Oct 18;60(47):25034–25041. doi: 10.1002/anie.202110318

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Design of the engineered protein nanocage. A) Surface view of the native Quasibacillus thermotolerans T4 encapsulin (QtEnc, PDB 6NJ8), highlighting hexameric (blue) and pentameric (gray) facets, and E-loops (red) along with the GALA peptide insertion site (yellow). Inset: zoomed-in view of the three-fold symmetry axis and insertion site. B) E-loop (red) sequence of QtEnc and T4GALA highlighting the GALA insertion (yellow).