Carboxysomes are polyhedral structures that look very much like phage heads and are composed of 5-6 proteins that form a shell around ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase. It is thought that the carboxysomes serve to concentrate CO2 inside the structure and thus increase the efficiency of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase.
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