Structure and assembly of the α-carboxysome in the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus.


Journal

Nature plants
ISSN: 2055-0278
Titre abrégé: Nat Plants
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101651677

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Date de publication:
08 Apr 2024
Historique:
received: 08 06 2023
accepted: 29 02 2024
medline: 9 4 2024
pubmed: 9 4 2024
entrez: 8 4 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Carboxysomes are bacterial microcompartments that encapsulate the enzymes RuBisCO and carbonic anhydrase in a proteinaceous shell to enhance the efficiency of photosynthetic carbon fixation. The self-assembly principles of the intact carboxysome remain elusive. Here we purified α-carboxysomes from Prochlorococcus and examined their intact structures using single-particle cryo-electron microscopy to solve the basic principles of their shell construction and internal RuBisCO organization. The 4.2 Å icosahedral-like shell structure reveals 24 CsoS1 hexamers on each facet and one CsoS4A pentamer at each vertex. RuBisCOs are organized into three concentric layers within the shell, consisting of 72, 32 and up to 4 RuBisCOs at the outer, middle and inner layers, respectively. We uniquely show how full-length and shorter forms of the scaffolding protein CsoS2 bind to the inner surface of the shell via repetitive motifs in the middle and C-terminal regions. Combined with previous reports, we propose a concomitant 'outside-in' assembly principle of α-carboxysomes: the inner surface of the self-assembled shell is reinforced by the middle and C-terminal motifs of the scaffolding protein, while the free N-terminal motifs cluster to recruit RuBisCO in concentric, three-layered spherical arrangements. These new insights into the coordinated assembly of α-carboxysomes may guide the rational design and repurposing of carboxysome structures for improving plant photosynthetic efficiency.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38589484
doi: 10.1038/s41477-024-01660-9
pii: 10.1038/s41477-024-01660-9
doi:

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Journal Article

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eng

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Organisme : National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China)
ID : 32241025
Organisme : National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China)
ID : 32171198
Organisme : Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
ID : XDB37020301
Organisme : Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS)
ID : 2020452
Organisme : Environment and Conservation Fund (ECF)
ID : ECF Project 128/2020

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© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Rui-Qian Zhou (RQ)

Department of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China.
School of Life Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

Yong-Liang Jiang (YL)

School of Life Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. jyl@ustc.edu.cn.

Haofu Li (H)

Department of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China.

Pu Hou (P)

School of Life Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

Wen-Wen Kong (WW)

School of Life Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

Jia-Xin Deng (JX)

School of Life Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

Yuxing Chen (Y)

School of Life Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.

Cong-Zhao Zhou (CZ)

School of Life Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. zcz@ustc.edu.cn.

Qinglu Zeng (Q)

Department of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China. zeng@ust.hk.

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