Common ancestry of iron oxide- and iron-sulfide-based biomineralization in magnetotactic bacteria

ISME Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1634-1640

  Abreu, Fernanda ^a   Cantão, Mauricio E ^b,c   Nicolás, Marisa F ^b   Barcellos, Fernando G ^b   Morillo, Viviana ^a   Almeida, Luiz G P ^b   Do Nascimento, Fabrícia F ^a   Lefèvre, Christopher T ^d   Bazylinski, Dennis A ^d   De Vasconcelos, Ana Tereza R ^b   Lins, Ulysses ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE METROLOGIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

biomineralization evolution; greigite; horizontal gene transfer; magnetite; magnetosome; magnetotactic bacteria

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREIGITE; IRON; MAGNETITE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SULFIDE;

BACTERIUM; BIOMINERALIZATION; CELL ORGANELLE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMICS; GREIGITE; IRON OXIDE; IRON SULFIDE; LIPID; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETITE; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOSOME; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; IRON; MAGNETICS; MAGNETOSOMES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; ORGANELLES; SULFIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 80052968079     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.35     Document Type: Article

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