Sentences with phrase «called microcompartments»

Bacteria use protein shells called microcompartments to concentrate important chemical reactions in one place.

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Now researchers have constructed a complete 3 - D model of a microcompartment from a saltwater bacterium called Haliangium ochraceum.

Since the 1950s, biologists have known that photosynthetic cyanobacteria make microcompartments, called carboxysomes, which house an important photosynthesis enzyme.