Encapsulin
The encapsulins are a family of bacterial proteins that serve as the main structural components of encapsulin nanocompartments. There are several different encapsulin proteins, including EncA, which forms the shell, and EncB, EncC, and EncD, which form the core.
EM structure of Myxococcus xanthus encpasulin protein (EncA) PDB entry 4pt2 | |||||||||
| Identifiers | |||||||||
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| Symbol | Linocin_M18 | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF04454 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR007544 | ||||||||
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Encapsulins are also used in synthetic biology. They are hard to discover due to their similarity to phage proteins.
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