Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos. 40906069,40776094);Shangdong 908 Project (No. SD-908-02-08);the Haiwaijiechuxuezhe-Fund of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.2006-1-15);K. C. WONG Education Foundation
Multicellular magnetotactic prokaryotes (MMPs) are a group of aggregates composed of 7-45 gram-negative cells synthesizing intracellular magnetic crystals. Although they are thought to be globally distributed, MMPs ...
Supported by the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams (Research and Applications of Marine Functional Genomics);the Haiwaijie chuxuezhe-Fund of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2006-1-15);the fund from MATHAB (No. MH200804);a CNRS scholarship for FZ, and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40776094)
Magnetospirillum magneticum strain AMB-1 belongs to the family of magnetotactic bacteria. It possesses a magnetosome chain aligning, with the assistance of cytoskeleton filaments MamK, along the long axis of the spira...