Visualization and structural analysis of the bacterial magnetic organelle magnetosome using atomic force microscopy

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

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 9382-9387

  Yamamoto, Daisuke ^a,b   Taoka, Azuma ^a   Uchihashi, Takayuki ^a,b   Sasaki, Hideaki ^a   Watanabe, Hiroki ^a   Ando, Toshio ^a,b   Fukumori, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Magnetotactic bacteria; Nanoparticle; Protein localization; Scanning probe microscopy; TPR protein

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MAGNETITE; MICA; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN MAMA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; MAGNETOSOME; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAGNETOSOMES; MAGNETOSPIRILLUM; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES;

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

EID: 77952712556     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001870107     Document Type: Article

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