Restoration and Modification of Magnetosome Biosynthesis by Internal Gene Acquisition in a Magnetotactic Bacterium

Tethered Magnets Are the Key to Magnetotaxis: Direct Observations of Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1 Show that MamK Distributes Magnetosome Organelles Equally to Daughter Cells

(2017) Azuma Taoka et al.   mBio

Genetic plasticity of the Shigella virulence plasmid is mediated by intra- and inter-molecular events between insertion sequences

(2017) Giulia Pilla et al.   PLoS Genetics

Overproduction of Magnetosomes by Genomic Amplification of Biosynthesis-Related Gene Clusters in a Magnetotactic Bacterium

(2016) Anna Lohße et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative Subcellular Localization Analysis of Magnetosome Proteins Reveals a Unique Localization Behavior of Mms6 Protein onto Magnetite Crystals

(2016) Atsushi Arakaki et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Survival and Evolution of a Large Multidrug Resistance Plasmid in New Clinical Bacterial Hosts

(2016) Andreas Porse et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Magnetosome biogenesis in magnetotactic bacteria

(2016) René Uebe et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Heteromeric transposase elements: generators of genomic islands across diverse bacteria

(2014) Joseph E. Peters et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Co-ordinated functions of Mms proteins define the surface structure of cubo-octahedral magnetite crystals in magnetotactic bacteria

(2014) Atsushi Arakaki et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Biosynthesis of magnetic nanostructures in a foreign organism by transfer of bacterial magnetosome gene clusters

(2014) Isabel Kolinko et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Comparative genomic analysis provides insights into the evolution and niche adaptation of marineMagnetospirasp. QH-2 strain

(2013) Boyang Ji et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Structural insight into magnetochrome-mediated magnetite biomineralization

(2013) Marina I. Siponen et al.   NATURE

The magnetosome membrane protein, MmsF, is a major regulator of magnetite biomineralization in Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1

(2012) Dorothée Murat et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Frequent Mutations within the Genomic Magnetosome Island of Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense Are Mediated by RecA

(2011) I. Kolinko et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The cation diffusion facilitator proteins MamB and MamM of Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense have distinct and complex functions, and are involved in magnetite biomineralization and magnetosome membrane assembly

(2011) René Uebe et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

MMS6 Protein Regulates Crystal Morphology during Nano-sized Magnetite Biomineralizationin Vivo

(2010) Masayoshi Tanaka et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

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

(2010) D. Murat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative analysis of magnetosome gene clusters in magnetotactic bacteria provides further evidence for horizontal gene transfer

(2009) Christian Jogler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Whole genome sequence of Desulfovibrio magneticus strain RS-1 revealed common gene clusters in magnetotactic bacteria

(2009) H. Nakazawa et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Enzymatic assembly of DNA molecules up to several hundred kilobases

(2009) Daniel G Gibson et al.   NATURE METHODS

Formation of magnetite by bacteria and its application

(2008) A. Arakaki et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Tn7 elements: Engendering diversity from chromosomes to episomes

(2008) Adam R. Parks et al.   PLASMID