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Magnetosome Membrane Formation.
In the Alphaproteobacterium Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense, approximately 30 genes were found to control magnetosome biosynthesis. By cryo-electron tomography of several key mutant strains we identified the gene complement controlling magnetosome membrane (MM) formation in this model organism. Whereas the putative magnetosomal iron transporter MamB was most crucial for the process and caused the most severe MM phenotype upon elimination, MamM, MamQ and MamL were also required for the formation of wild-type-like MMs. See Raschdorf et al.
Image Credit: Raschdorf et al.
Citation: (2016) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 12(6) June 2016. PLoS Genet 12(6): ev12.i06. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v12.i06
Published: June 30, 2016
Copyright: © 2016 Raschdorf et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
In the Alphaproteobacterium Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense, approximately 30 genes were found to control magnetosome biosynthesis. By cryo-electron tomography of several key mutant strains we identified the gene complement controlling magnetosome membrane (MM) formation in this model organism. Whereas the putative magnetosomal iron transporter MamB was most crucial for the process and caused the most severe MM phenotype upon elimination, MamM, MamQ and MamL were also required for the formation of wild-type-like MMs. See Raschdorf et al.
Image Credit: Raschdorf et al.