Structural characterization of encapsulated ferritin provides insight into iron storage in bacterial nanocompartments
Didi He, Sam Hughes, Sally Vanden-Hehir, Atanas Georgiev, Kirsten Altenbach, Emma Tarrant, C Logan Mackay, Kevin J Waldron, David J Clarke, Jon Marles-Wright
The paper characterizes an encapsulated ferritin within an encapsulin capsid, showing it forms a ferroxidase center but cannot mineralize iron, while the shell binds iron but is not enzymatically active.
bioRxiv · Jul 13, 2016Biochemistry