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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 6, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba1269
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- NIH [T32-GM008759]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0019306]
- National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences
- DOE [DE-SC0014664]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0019306] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Carboxysomes, prototypical bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) found in cyanobacteria, are large (similar to 1 GDa) and essential protein complexes that enhance CO2 fixation. While carboxysome biogenesis has been elucidated, the activity dynamics, lifetime, and degradation of these structures have not been investigated, owing to the inability of tracking individual BMCs over time in vivo. We have developed a fluorescence-imaging platform to simultaneously measure carboxysome number, position, and activity over time in a growing cyanobacterial population, allowing individual carboxysomes to be clustered on the basis of activity and spatial dynamics. We have demonstrated both BMC degradation, characterized by abrupt activity loss followed by polar recruitment of the deactivated complex, and a subclass of ultraproductive carboxysomes. Together, our results reveal the BMC life cycle after biogenesis and describe the first method for measuring activity of single BMCs in vivo.
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