New magnet-sensitive structures in bacterial and archaeal cells

M Vainshtein, N Suzina, E Kudryashova, E Ariskina - Biology of the Cell, 2002 - Elsevier
The objects of the investigation were: distribution of intracellular magnet-sensitive structures
among different taxonomic groups of prokaryotes, localisation and organisation of the …

Magnetotactic bacteria: promising biosorbents for heavy metals

W Zhou, Y Zhang, X Ding, Y Liu, F Shen… - Applied microbiology …, 2012 - Springer
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB), which can orient and migrate along a magnetic line of force
due to intracellular nanosized magnetosomes, have been a subject of research in the …

Culture‐independent characterization of a novel, uncultivated magnetotactic member of the Nitrospirae phylum

CT Lefèvre, RB Frankel, F Abreu, U Lins… - Environmental …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A magnetotactic bacterium, designated strain LO‐1, of the Nitrospirae phylum was detected
and concentrated from a number of freshwater and slightly brackish aquatic environments in …

Closed-loop control of magnetotactic bacteria

ISM Khalil, MP Pichel, L Abelmann… - … International Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Realization of point-to-point positioning of a magnetotactic bacterium (MTB) necessitates the
application of a relatively large magnetic field gradients to decrease its velocity in the vicinity …

Magneto-aerotaxis

RB Frankel, TJ Williams, DA Bazylinski - … and magnetosomes in bacteria, 2007 - Springer
Magnetotactic bacteria orient and migrate along geomagnetic field lines. Magneto-aerotaxis
increases the efficiency of respiring cells to efficiently find and maintain position at a …

Dynamics of an active magnetic particle in a rotating magnetic field

A Cēbers, M Ozols - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2006 - APS
The motion of an active (self-propelling) particle with a permanent magnetic moment under
the action of a rotating magnetic field is considered. We show that below a critical frequency …

Problems and progress in microswimming

J Koiller, K Ehlers, R Montgomery - Journal of Nonlinear Science, 1996 - Springer
Stokesian swimming is a geometric exercise, a collective game. In Part I, we review Shapere
and Wilczek's gauge-theoretical approach for a single organism. We estimate the speeds of …

Characterization of primary and secondary magnetite in marine sediment by combining chemical and magnetic unmixing techniques

P Ludwig, R Egli, S Bishop, V Chernenko… - Global and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a novel technique for quantitative unmixing of primary and secondary
ferrimagnetic minerals in sediments. Hysteresis and high-resolution first-order reversal curve …

Magnetotaxis and acquisition of detrital remanent magnetization by magnetotactic bacteria in natural sediment: first experimental results and theory

X Mao, R Egli, N Petersen, M Hanzlik… - Geochemistry …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The widespread occurrence of magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) in several types of marine and
freshwater sediment, and the role of fossil magnetosomes (magnetofossils) as main …

Newly isolated but uncultivated magnetotactic bacterium of the phylum Nitrospirae from Bei**g, China

W Lin, J Li, Y Pan - Applied and environmental microbiology, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) in the phylum Nitrospirae synthesize up to hundreds of
intracellular bullet-shaped magnetite magnetosomes. In the present study, a watermelon …