Localized iron accumulation precedes nucleation and growth of magnetite crystals in magnetotactic bacteria

Jacques Werckmann (1) , Jefferson Cypriano (1) , Christopher T. Lefèvre (2, 3) , Kassiogé Dembélé (4) , Ovidiu Ersen (4) , Dennis A Bazylinski (5) , Ulysses Lins (1) , Marcos Farina (1)

1 UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
2 BIAM - Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies d'Aix-Marseille (ex-IBEB)
3 MEM - Microbiologie Environnementale et Moléculaire
4 IPCMS - Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg
5 University of Nevada [Reno]

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Jacques Werckmann, Jefferson Cypriano, Christopher T. Lefèvre, Kassiogé Dembélé, Ovidiu Ersen, et al.. Localized iron accumulation precedes nucleation and growth of magnetite crystals in magnetotactic bacteria. Scientific Reports, 2017, 7 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41598-017-08994-9⟩. ⟨cea-02044699⟩