Multistep Assembly of a Microcompartment Encapsulating Hundreds of Molecules (II)

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This video shows another example of a simulation in which a model bacterial microcompartment shell encapsulates hundreds of cargo molecules by a multistep assembly pathway.

Shell subunits (hexamers (brown) and pentamers (blue)) are adsorbed onto the cargo globule (red) in a disordered manner.

The adsorbed shell subunits collectively assemble and bud from the globule.