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Magnetotactic Bacteria, Magnetosomes, and Nanotechnology

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Magnetotactic bacteria are motile, mostly aquatic, ubiquitous prokaryotes whose direction of swimming is profoundly influenced by the Earth’s and other magnetic fields. These microorganisms biomineralize magnetosomes which are intracellular, tens of nanometer sized, membrane-bounded magnetic crystals of the minerals magnetite (Fe3O4) and greigite (Fe3S4). Magnetosomes are anchored within the cell and cause it to passively align along magnetic field lines while it swims. Construction of the magnetosome chain is an elaborate biomineralization process that is under strict genetic and environmental control. Because of their unique magnetic and physical properties, magnetotactic bacteria and their unique organelles are useful in numerous scientific, commercial, and medical applications.

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Acknowledgments

We thank F. Abreu, D. Faivre, R. B. Frankel U. Lins, and D. Schüler for continual collaboration and extensive discussions. We have been supported by US National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants EAR-0920718 and EAR-0920299. DAB is currently supported by subcontract SC-12–384 from US Department of Energy contract DE-AC02–07CH11358 to the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University. CTL is supported by the French national research agency ANR on the call-for-project P2 N (project MEFISTO).

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Bazylinski, D., Lefèvre, C., Lower, B. (2014). Magnetotactic Bacteria, Magnetosomes, and Nanotechnology. In: Barton, L., Bazylinski, D., Xu, H. (eds) Nanomicrobiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1667-2_3

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