An acidic protein aligns magnetosomes along a filamentous structure in magnetotactic bacteria

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7080, 2006, Pages 110-114

  Scheffel, André ^a   Gruska, Manuela ^b   Faivre, Damien ^a   Linaroudis, Alexandros ^b   Plitzko, Jürgen M ^b   Schüler, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PROTEINS;

CRYO-ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; INTRACELLULAR ORGANELLES; MAGNETOSOME SYNTHESIS; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA;

BACTERIA;

ACID PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; CRYSTAL; CYTOSKELETON; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTIC CELL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM GRYPHISWALDENSE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 33644763960     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04382     Document Type: Article

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