Magnetite Magnetosome Biomineralization in Magnetospirillum magneticum Strain AMB-1: A Time Course Study

Authors

Lucas Le Nagard, McMaster University
Xiaohui Zhu, McMaster University
Hao Yuan, McMaster University
Karim Benzerara, Sorbonne Université
Dennis A. Bazylinski, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow
Cécile Fradin, McMaster University
Adrien Besson, Synchrotron SOLEIL
Sufal Swaraj, Synchrotron SOLEIL
Stefan Stanescu, Synchrotron SOLEIL
Rachid Belkhou, Synchrotron SOLEIL
Adam P. Hitchcock, McMaster UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-22-2019

Publication Title

Chemical Geology

Volume

530

Issue

30

First page number:

1

Last page number:

12

Abstract

Magnetotactic bacteria are a highly studied group of diverse prokaryotes that biomineralize chains of magnetosomes, single domain, single crystal magnetic nanoparticles of magnetite or greigite, enclosed by a lipid bilayer membrane whose synthesis is under strict genetic control.

Keywords

Magnetotactic bacteria; Magnetospirillum magneticum strain AMB-1; Biomineralization; Time course; Transmission electron microscopy; Synchrotron spectro-microscopy; STXMX-ray absorption; X-ray magnetic circular dichroism

Disciplines

Biogeochemistry

Language

English

Repository Citation

Le Nagard, L., Zhu, X., Yuan, H., Benzerara, K., Bazylinski, D. A., Fradin, C., Besson, A., Swaraj, S., Stanescu, S., Belkhou, R., Hitchcock, A. P. (2019). Magnetite Magnetosome Biomineralization in Magnetospirillum magneticum Strain AMB-1: A Time Course Study. Chemical Geology, 530(30), 1-12.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119348