Isolation and cultivation of a novel sulfate-reducing magnetotactic bacterium belonging to the genus Desulfovibrio
Fig 5
STEM-EDS analysis, and TEM and HRTEM images of magnetic nanoparticles in each cell.
(A) STEM image of a magnetosome. (B), (C) STEM-EDS elemental maps corresponding to iron (Fe) and oxygen (O). (D) TEM image of a magnetosome in a cell corresponding to the dashed-line box indicated in the inset. (E) HRTEM image of a magnetic nanoparticle indicated by the dashed-line box in panel (D). (F) HRTEM image of the same nanoparticle as shown in panel (E). (G) Fast Fourier transform (FFT) pattern of the same nanoparticle as shown in panel (F).