Publication Date:
2011-12-24
Description:
Magnetotactic bacteria contain magnetosomes--intracellular, membrane-bounded, magnetic nanocrystals of magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)) or greigite (Fe(3)S(4))--that cause the bacteria to swim along geomagnetic field lines. We isolated a greigite-producing magnetotactic bacterium from a brackish spring in Death Valley National Park, California, USA, strain BW-1, that is able to biomineralize greigite and magnetite depending on culture conditions. A phylogenetic comparison of BW-1 and similar uncultured greigite- and/or magnetite-producing magnetotactic bacteria from freshwater to hypersaline habitats shows that these organisms represent a previously unknown group of sulfate-reducing bacteria in the Deltaproteobacteria. Genomic analysis of BW-1 reveals the presence of two different magnetosome gene clusters, suggesting that one may be responsible for greigite biomineralization and the other for magnetite.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lefevre, Christopher T -- Menguy, Nicolas -- Abreu, Fernanda -- Lins, Ulysses -- Posfai, Mihaly -- Prozorov, Tanya -- Pignol, David -- Frankel, Richard B -- Bazylinski, Dennis A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Dec 23;334(6063):1720-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1212596.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratoire de Bioenergetique Cellulaire, UMR 6191, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique Cadarache, Direction des Sciences du Vivant, Institut de Biologie Environnementale et Biotechnologie, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22194580" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
California
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Crystallization
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Culture Media
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Deltaproteobacteria/classification/genetics/*isolation & purification/metabolism
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Ecosystem
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Ferrosoferric Oxide/analysis/metabolism
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Fresh Water/microbiology
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Genes, rRNA
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Genome, Bacterial
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Geologic Sediments/microbiology
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Iron/analysis/*metabolism
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*Magnetic Phenomena
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Magnetosomes/*chemistry
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Natural Springs/*microbiology
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Oxidation-Reduction
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Phylogeny
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RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
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Salinity
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Sulfates/*metabolism
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Sulfides/analysis/*metabolism
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*Water Microbiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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