http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uoc--ndb080805.php
QUOTE: UCLA biochemists reveal the first structural details of a family
of mysterious objects called microcompartments that seem to be present
in a variety of bacteria. The discovery was published Aug. 5 in the
journal Science. "This is the first look at how microcompartments are
built, and what the pieces look like," said Todd O. Yeates, UCLA
professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and a member of the UCLA-DOE
Institute of Genomics and Proteomics. "These microcompartments appear
to be highly evolved machines, and we are just now learning how they
are put together and how they might work. We can see the particular
amino acids and atoms."
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