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SUBMITTER: Murat D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3570065 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Murat Dorothée D Falahati Veesta V Bertinetti Luca L Csencsits Roseann R Körnig André A Downing Kenneth K Faivre Damien D Komeili Arash A
Molecular microbiology 20120710 4
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) use magnetosomes, membrane-bound crystals of magnetite or greigite, for navigation along geomagnetic fields. In Magnetospirillum magneticum sp. AMB-1, and other MTB, a magnetosome gene island (MAI) is essential for every step of magnetosome formation. An 8-gene region of the MAI encodes several factors implicated in control of crystal size and morphology in previous genetic and proteomic studies. We show that these factors play a minor role in magnetite biomineraliza ...[more]