Intracellular Structures of Prokaryotes: Inclusions, Compartments and Assemblages
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Department
Chemistry and Biochemistry
School
Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Abstract
Discrete structures found within the cytoplasm of the prokaryotic cell (in one case in the periplasm) represent certain aspects of an organism’s metabolic capability. The structures, varying in size, shape, content, and architecture, are either naked or surrounded with a barrier, for example, a protein shell or coat, a lipid monolayer, a protein-lipid monolayer, or a lipid-protein bilayer (unit membrane). A brief, up-to-date overview is provided for each of 14 structural types: anammoxosomes, carboxysomes, chlorosomes, gas vesicles, insecticidal proteins, magnetosomes, phycobilisomes, proteasomes, and granules of cyanophycin, glycogen, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), polyphosphate, triacylglycerols (TAG) and wax esters (WE). Each of the structures, based on their primary function, is placed into one of three categories: (1) structures as metabolic machinery, (2) structures as contributors to cell mobility, and (3) structures as metabolic reserves.
Publication Title
Encyclopedia of Microbiology
First Page
716
Last Page
738
Recommended Citation
Shively, J.,
Cannon, G.,
Heinhorst, S.,
Fuerst, J.,
Bryant, D.,
Maupin-Furlow, J.,
Schüler, D.,
Pfeifer, F.,
Docampo, R.,
Dahl, C.,
Preiss, J.,
Steinbüchel, A.,
Federici, B.
(2019). Intracellular Structures of Prokaryotes: Inclusions, Compartments and Assemblages. Encyclopedia of Microbiology, 716-738.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/19145
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