Term Information

Accession
GO:0031471
Name
ethanolamine degradation polyhedral organelle
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
ethanolamine metabolosome
Alternate IDs
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Definition
An organelle found in bacteria consisting of a proteinaceous coat containing enzymes for the degradation of ethanolamine whose purpose is the protection of the rest of the cell from the toxic acetaldehyde product of the enzyme ethanolamine ammonia lyase. Source: PMID:11844753, GOC:js
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0031471 at QuickGO
Subset
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ethanolamine degradation polyhedral organelle [is_a relation] is_a  bacterial microcompartment (GO:0031469)

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