Presently, conventional technologies in water treatment are not efficient enough to
completely mineralize refractory water contaminants. In this context, the implementation of …

Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are self-assembling organelles that consist of an
enzymatic core that is encapsulated by a selectively permeable protein shell. The potential …

Two major energy-related problems confront the world in the next 50 years. First, increased
worldwide competition for gradually depleting fossil fuel reserves (derived from past …

Cells routinely compartmentalize enzymes for enhanced efficiency of their metabolic
pathways. Here we report a general approach to construct DNA nanocaged enzymes for …

Advances in imaging technologies have revealed that many bacteria possess organelles
with a proteomically defined lumen and a macromolecular boundary. Some are bound by a …

Autotrophic CO2 fixation represents the most important biosynthetic process in biology.
Besides the well-known Calvin-Benson cycle, five other totally different autotrophic …

John Dupré explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their
relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society. Epigenetics and …

Cyanobacteria are the globally dominant photoautotrophic lineage. Their success is
dependent on a set of adaptations collectively termed the CO2-concentrating mechanism …

Compartmentalization is a ubiquitous building principle in cells, which permits segregation
of biological elements and reactions. The carboxysome is a specialized bacterial organelle …

Marine picocyanobacteria of the genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus numerically
dominate the picophytoplankton of the world ocean, making a key contribution to global …