A Large Gene Cluster Encoding Several Magnetosome Proteins Is Conserved in Different Species of Magnetotactic Bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 4573-4582

  Grünberg, Karen ^a   Wawer, Cathrin ^a   Tebo, Bradley M ^b   Schüler, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IRON; MAGNETITE; OXIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MAGNETISM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RHODOSPIRILLACEAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; IRON; MAGNETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGANELLES; OXIDES; RHODOSPIRILLACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0035486722     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.10.4573-4582.2001     Document Type: Article

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