Integrative analysis of the ethanolamine utilization bacterial microcompartment in .

Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are self-assembling protein megacomplexes that encapsulate metabolic pathways. Although approximately 20% of sequenced bacterial genomes contain operons encoding putative BMCs, few have been thoroughly characterized, nor any in the most studied strains. We used an interdisciplinary approach to gain deep molecular and functional insights into the ethanolamine utilization (Eut) BMC system encoded by the operon in K-12.