Comprehensive genetic dissection of the magnetosome gene island reveals the step-wise assembly of a prokaryotic organelle

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5593-5598

  Murat, Dorothée ^a   Quinlan, Anna ^a   Vali, Hojatollah ^b   Komeili, Arash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacterial organelle; Biomineralization; Compartmentalization; Magnetosome; Magnetotactic bacteria

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL VIOLET; MAGNETITE;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOMINERALIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; LIPID BILAYER; MAGNETOSOME; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTIC CELL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MAGNETICS; MAGNETOSOMES; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM MAGNETICUM AMB-1; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77950442198     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914439107     Document Type: Article

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