Assembly of a Microcompartment and Encapsulation of Hundreds of Diffuse Cargo Molecules

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This video shows an example of a simulation in which a model bacterial microcompartment encapsulates hundreds of cargo molecules through a single-step assembly pathway.

As the protein subunits (hexamers (brown) and pentamers (blue) start to assemble into a shell, cargo molecules are condensed into a dense globule.