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encapsulin nanocompartment

Term Information

Accession
GO:0140737
Name
encapsulin nanocompartment
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
protein nanocompartment
Alternate IDs
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Definition
Intracellular non-membrane bound organelle, consisting of proteinaceous polyhedral shells that encapsulate enzymes, protecting the contents from their surrounding milieu and/or the milieu from reactants in their interior. The self-assembling, 25-42 nm nanocompartment shell, unlike larger bacterial microcompartments, is made of only one protein, and has only a few proteins inside. Shells about vary from about 25-42 nm in diameter. The shell protein has an HK97-like fold and probably evolved from a viral protein. Artificial encapsulin nanocompartments can be expressed and filled with cargo proteins for biotechnological uses. They are found in many bacterial and a few archaeal phyla. Source: PMID:32918485
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0140737 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of encapsulin nanocompartment (GO:0140737)
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encapsulin nanocompartment [is_a relation] is_a  intracellular non-membrane-bounded organelle (GO:0043232)

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