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Tethered Magnets Are the Key to Magnetotaxis: Direct Observations of
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- Biosynthesis and function of magnetic organelles in magnetotactic bacteria.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Cooperative and divergent properties of bacterial actin isoforms inBiophysics and physicobiology · 2026Article
- Visualizing the dynamic polymerization of the bacterial actin-like cytoskeleton for magnetic organelle positioning.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Mad28, a conserved actin-like protein in deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria, exhibits cell curvature-dependent localization.Journal of bacteriology · 2025Article
- A network of coiled-coil and actin-like proteins controls the cellular organization of magnetosome organelles in deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Cellular Distribution and Motion of Essential Magnetosome Proteins Expressed in Mammalian Cells.Biosensors · 2025Article
- Magnetosome organelles are organized through interactions between McaA and McaB that alter the dynamics of the bacterial actin-like protein MamK.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- A network of coiled-coil and actin-like proteins controls the cellular organization of magnetosome organelles in deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Influence of protozoan grazing on magnetotactic bacteria on intracellular and extracellular iron content.Environmental microbiology reports · 2023Article
- Live-Cell Fluorescence Imaging of Magnetosome Organelle for Magnetotaxis Motility.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Physical Properties and Shifting of the Extracellular Membrane Vesicles Attached to Living Bacterial Cell Surfaces.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- McaA and McaB control the dynamic positioning of a bacterial magnetic organelle.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Magnetic genes: Studying the genetics of biomineralization in magnetotactic bacteria.PLoS genetics · 2020Review
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8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Magnetotactic bacteria are a unique group of bacteria that synthesize a magnetic organelle termed the magnetosome, which they use to assist with their magnetic navigation in a specific type of bacterial motility called magneto-aerotaxis. Cytoskeletal filaments consisting of the actin-like protein MamK are associated with the magnetosome chain. Previously, the function of MamK was thought to be in positioning magnetosome organelles; this was proposed based on observations via electron microscopy still images. Here, we conducted live-cell time-lapse fluorescence imaging analyses employing highly inclined and laminated optical sheet microscopy, and these methods enabled us to visualize detailed dynamic movement of magnetosomes in growing cells during the entire cell cycle with high-temporal resolution and a high signal/noise ratio. We found that the MamK cytoskeleton anchors magnetosomes through a mechanism that requires MamK-ATPase activity throughout the cell cycle to prevent simple diffusion of magnetosomes within the cell. We concluded that the static chain-like arrangement of the magnetosomes is required to precisely and consistently segregate the magnetosomes to daughter cells. Thus, the daughter cells inherit a functional magnetic sensor that mediates magneto-reception.
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