Structural insight into the Clostridium difficile ethanolamine utilisation microcompartment.

Bacterial microcompartments form a protective proteinaceous barrier around metabolic enzymes that process unstable or toxic chemical intermediates. The genome of the virulent, multidrug-resistant Clostridium difficile 630 strain contains an operon, eut, encoding a bacterial microcompartment with gen...

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Main Authors: Alison C Pitts, Laura R Tuck, Alexandra Faulds-Pain, Richard J Lewis, Jon Marles-Wright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23144756/pdf/?tool=EBI