Magnetosome formation in prokaryotes

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 217-230

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

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ORGANELLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM GRYPHISWALDENSE; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM MAGNETICUMM; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM MAGNETOTACTICUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; IRON; MAGNETICS; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANELLES; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SIDEROPHORES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM GRYPHISWALDENSE; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM MAGNETOTACTICUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4844225111     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro842     Document Type: Review

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