Diversity and ecology of and biomineralization by magnetotactic bacteria

W Lin, Y Pan, DA Bazylinski - Environmental Microbiology …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) biomineralize intracellular, membrane‐bounded crystals of
magnetite (Fe3O4) and/or greigite (Fe3S4) called magnetosomes. MTB play important roles …

Magnetic genes: studying the genetics of biomineralization in magnetotactic bacteria

HC McCausland, A Komeili - PLoS Genetics, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
Many species of bacteria can manufacture materials on a finer scale than those that are
synthetically made. These products are often produced within intracellular compartments …

Genomic insights into the uncultured genus 'Candidatus Magnetobacterium' in the phylum Nitrospirae

W Lin, A Deng, Z Wang, Y Li, T Wen, LF Wu… - The ISME …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) of the genus 'Candidatus Magnetobacterium'in phylum
Nitrospirae are of great interest because of the formation of hundreds of bullet-shaped …

Magnetotactic bacteria as potential sources of bioproducts

ACV Araujo, F Abreu, KT Silva, DA Bazylinski, U Lins - Marine drugs, 2015‏ - mdpi.com
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) produce intracellular organelles called magnetosomes which
are magnetic nanoparticles composed of magnetite (Fe3O4) or greigite (Fe3S4) enveloped …

Diverse intracellular inclusion types within magnetotactic bacteria: implications for biogeochemical cycling in aquatic environments

J Li, P Liu, A Tamaxia, H Zhang, Y Liu… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are a group of prokaryotes that generally live dominantly at or
just below the oxic‐anoxic transition zone (OATZ) in diverse aquatic environments. They …

From invagination to navigation: The story of magnetosome‐associated proteins in magnetotactic bacteria

S Barber‐Zucker, N Keren‐Khadmy… - Protein …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are a group of Gram‐negative microorganisms that are able to
sense and change their orientation in accordance with the geomagnetic field. This unique …

Repeated horizontal gene transfers triggered parallel evolution of magnetotaxis in two evolutionary divergent lineages of magnetotactic bacteria

CL Monteil, DS Grouzdev, G Perrière… - The ISME …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Under the same selection pressures, two genetically divergent populations may evolve in
parallel toward the same adaptive solutions. Here, we hypothesized that magnetotaxis (ie …

Magnetospirillum caucaseum sp. nov., Magnetospirillum marisnigri sp. nov. and Magnetospirillum moscoviense sp. nov., freshwater magnetotactic bacteria isolated …

M Dziuba, V Koziaeva, D Grouzdev… - … of Systematic and …, 2016‏ - microbiologyresearch.org
Three strains of helical, magnetotactic bacteria, SO-1T, SP-1T and BB-1T, were isolated from
freshwater sediments collected from three distinct locations in European Russia …

A quantitative assessment of the membrane-integral sub-proteome of a bacterial magnetic organelle

O Raschdorf, F Bonn, N Zeytuni, R Zarivach… - Journal of …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Magnetotactic bacteria produce chains of complex membrane-bound organelles that direct
the biomineralization of magnetic nanoparticles and serve for magnetic field navigation …

Fusion expression of nanobodies specific for the insecticide fipronil on magnetosomes in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense MSR-1

S Wu, F Ma, J He, QX Li, BD Hammock, J Tian… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - Springer
Background Magnetic nanoparticles such as magnetosomes modified with antibodies allow
a high probability of their interaction with targets of interest. Magnetosomes biomineralized …