Capsular polysaccharide-mediated protein loading onto extracellular membrane vesicles of Shewanella vesiculosa HM13
Kouhei Kamasaka, Jun Kawamoto, Taiku Tsudzuki, Yuanzheng Yang, Yuying Liu, Tomoya Imai, Angela Casillo, Takuya Ogawa, Maria Michela Corsaro, Tatsuo Kurihara · 2026
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Kouhei Kamasaka and nine co-authors ask, in 2026 work, how a bacterium loads its main cargo protein onto the tiny bubbles it sheds. Such bubbles carry goods between cells and help gather food, but the rules for what gets loaded were unclear. The study centres on one cold-loving water bacterium and its chief cargo.
When genes near the cargo gene were cut, a sugar coat on the bubbles was lost, and the cargo no longer loaded. Lab tests showed the cargo sticks only to bubbles that bear the coat, and binds the coat itself when both are pure. Under a fine scope, the cargo forms small dots on the bubble face. The team calls the coat a scaffold for loading, a trick that may aid future display tools.
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| CREATOR | Kouhei Kamasaka, Jun Kawamoto, Taiku Tsudzuki, Yuanzheng Yang, Yuying Liu, Tomoya Imai, Angela Casillo, Takuya Ogawa, Maria Michela Corsaro, Tatsuo Kurihara |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |