Abstract
In response to the low catalytic rate and low specificity of the carbon fixation enzyme rubisco, autotrophic bacteria evolved the carboxysome, a bacterial microcompartment designed to locally concentrate CO2 and enhance carbon fixation. The carboxysome encloses rubisco and other proteins with a proteinaceous shell containing pores believed to be permeable to small, metabolically important anions such as bicarbonate and ribulose-1,5-biphosphate. Direct observation of small-molecule transport into the carboxysome has proven challenging, and heterogeneity in permeability is expected since carboxysomes are formed by spontaneous self-assembly.
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