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SUBMITTER: Davidov G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4439547 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in molecular biosciences 20150521
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are a diverse group of aquatic bacteria that have the magnetotaxis ability to align themselves along the geomagnetic field lines and to navigate to a microoxic zone at the bottom of chemically stratified natural water. This special navigation is the result of a unique linear assembly of a specialized organelle, the magnetosome, which contains a biomineralized magnetic nanocrystal enveloped by a cytoplasmic membrane. The Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense MtxA protein ( ...[more]