About the CCBC

Our overarching goals are to acquire a fundamental understanding of how multi-step reaction pathways are confined within and optimized by selectively permeable protein-based shells of Bacterial Microcompartments (BMCs) and to apply this knowledge to establish BMC shell proteins as building blocks that can be used for confined, hierarchically-ordered biological and synthetic multi-step catalysis.

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CCBC is a multidisciplinary team of scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Michigan State University performing research at the cutting edge of synthetic biology.

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