How magnetotactic bacteria make magnetosomes queue up

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 329-331

  Frankel, Richard B ^a   Bazylinski, Dennis A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MAGNETITE; MAMJ PROTEIN; MAMK PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOMINERALIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SHORT SURVEY; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRYSTALLIZATION; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; MAGNETICS; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33746295614     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2006.06.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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