Review and analysis of scientific research and theory bearing on knowledge of Earth’s protogeobiosphere, origins and evolution of protobiont complexity, and emergence of life in the cosmos.

Banani, S.F., H.O. Lee, A.A. Hyman, M.K. Rosen 2017. Biomolecular condensates: organizers of cellular biochemistry. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 18(5): 285-298.

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Bardy, S.L., SY.M. Ng, K.F. Jarrell 2003. Prokaryotic motility structures. Microbiol. 149: 295-304.

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Cannon, G.C., C.E. Bradburne, H.C. Aldrich, S.H. Baker, S. Heinhorst, J.M. Shively 2001. Microcompartments in prokaryotes: carboxysomes and related polyhedra. App. Envir. Microbiol. 67(12): 5351–5361.

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Chowdhury, C., S. Sinha, S. Chun, T.O. Yeates, T.A. Bobik 2014. Diverse bacterial microcompartment organelles. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 78(3):438-468.

 

Khan, S., J.M. Scholey 2018. Assembly, functions and evolution of archaella, flagella and cilia. Current Biol. 28: R278-R292.

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Kerfeld, C.A., C. Aussignargues, J. Zarzycki, F. Cai, M. Sutter 2018. Bacterial microcompartments. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 16(5):277-290.

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MacCready, J.S., P. Hakim, E.J. Young et al. 2018. Protein gradients on the nucleoid position the carbon-fixing organelles of cyanobacteria. eLife 7:e39723 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.39723

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Mauriello, E. 2019. Carboxysomes: how bacteria arrange their organelles. eLife 2019;8:e43777 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.43777

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Mohajerani, F., M.f. Hagan 2018. The role of encapsulated cargo in microcompartment assembly. PLOS Comput. Biol. 14(7):e1006351.

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Nedeljkovic, M., D.E. Sastre, E.J. Sundberg 2021. Bacterial flagellar filament: a supramolecular multifunctional nanostructure. Int. J. Molecular Sci. 22:7521.

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Pallen, M.J., N.J. Matzke 2006. From The Origin of Species to the origin of bacterial flagella. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 4: 784-790.

 

Rotskoff, G.M., P.L. Geissler 2018. Robust nonequilibrium pathways to microcompartment assembly. PNAS 115(25):6341-6346.

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Sutter, M., M.R. Melnicki, F. Schulz, T. Woyke, C.A. Kerfeld 2021. A catalog of the diversity and ubiquity of bacterial microcompartments. Nat. Comm. 12:3809.

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Weiss, G.L., F. Eisenstein, A.K. Kieninger, J. Xu, H.A. Minas, M. Gerber, M. Feldmuller, I. Maldener, K. Forchhammer, M. Pilhofer 2022. Structure of a thylakoid-anchored contractile injection system in multicellular cyanobacteria. Nat. Microbiol. 7: 386-396.

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Zucker, B., M.M. Kozlov 2022. Mechanism of shaping membrane nanostructures of endoplasmic reticulum. PNAS 119(1):e2116142119.

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