The encapsulins are a family of bacterial proteins that serve as the main structural components of encapsulin nanocompartments.[1] There are several different encapsulin proteins, including EncA, which forms the shell, and EncB, EncC, and EncD, which form the core.[1]
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Symbol | Linocin_M18 | ||||||||
Pfam | PF04454 | ||||||||
InterPro | IPR007544 | ||||||||
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Encapsulins are also used in synthetic biology. They are hard to discover due to their similarity to phage proteins.[2]
Encapsulins serve many physiological functions, including catalysis, mineral storage, response to oxidative stress and secondary metabolism. There are ferritin-like encapsulins as well.[2]