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Structural insight into magnetochrome-mediated magnetite biomineralization.
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- Biosynthesis and function of magnetic organelles in magnetotactic bacteria.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- The Role of Confinement in Biomineralization.Chemical reviews · 2025Review
- Magnetically induced magnetosome chain (MAGiC): A biogenic magnetic-particle-imaging tracer with high performance and navigability.Science advances · 2025Article
- Magnetochrome-catalyzed oxidation of ferrous iron by MamP enables magnetite crystal growth in the magnetotactic bacterium AMB-1.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Understanding Biomineralization Mechanisms to Produce Size-Controlled, Tailored Nanocrystals for Optoelectronic and Catalytic Applications: A Review.ACS applied nano materials · 2024Review
- Biomedical applications of magnetosomes: State of the art and perspectives.Bioactive materials · 2023Review
- Magnetite Mineralization inside Cross-Linked Protein Crystals.Crystal growth & design · 2023Article
- Magnetosome proteins belong to universal protein families involved in many cell processes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Reply to Monteil et al.: Universal presence of core magnetite biomineralization genes points to ancient symbiosis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Biomanufacturing Biotinylated Magnetic Nanomaterial via Construction and Fermentation of Genetically Engineered Magnetotactic Bacteria.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Conservation of magnetite biomineralization genes in all domains of life and implications for magnetic sensing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Tumor-targeting inorganic nanomaterials synthesized by living cells.Nanoscale advances · 2021Review
- Experimental Evolution of Magnetite Nanoparticle Resistance inNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Current view of iron biomineralization in magnetotactic bacteria.Journal of structural biology: X · 2021Review
- Magnetotactic Bacteria Accumulate a Large Pool of Iron Distinct from Their Magnetite Crystals.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2020Article
- A Compass To Boost Navigation: Cell Biology of Bacterial Magnetotaxis.Journal of bacteriology · 2020Review
- Magnetic genes: Studying the genetics of biomineralization in magnetotactic bacteria.PLoS genetics · 2020Review
- MamY is a membrane-bound protein that aligns magnetosomes and the motility axis of helical magnetotactic bacteria.Nature microbiology · 2019Article
- Direct Electron Transfer of Enzymes Facilitated by Cytochromes.ChemElectroChem · 2019Review
- Reducing Conditions Favor Magnetosome Production inFrontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Magnetotactic bacteria align along the Earth's magnetic field using an organelle called the magnetosome, a biomineralized magnetite (Fe(II)Fe(III)2O4) or greigite (Fe(II)Fe(III)2S4) crystal embedded in a lipid vesicle. Although the need for both iron(II) and iron(III) is clear, little is known about the biological mechanisms controlling their ratio. Here we present the structure of the magnetosome-associated protein MamP and find that it is built on a unique arrangement of a self-plugged PDZ domain fused to two magnetochrome domains, defining a new class of c-type cytochrome exclusively found in magnetotactic bacteria. Mutational analysis, enzyme kinetics, co-crystallization with iron(II) and an in vitro MamP-assisted magnetite production assay establish MamP as an iron oxidase that contributes to the formation of iron(III) ferrihydrite eventually required for magnetite crystal growth in vivo. These results demonstrate the molecular mechanisms of iron management taking place inside the magnetosome and highlight the role of magnetochrome in iron biomineralization.
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