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ReviewBiomolecules2020

Flagella and Swimming Behavior of Marine Magnetotactic Bacteria.

Wei-Jia Zhang, Long-Fei Wu

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Review in Biomolecules, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. Escape motility of multicellular magnetotactic prokaryotes.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2024
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  9. Towards the Idea of Molecular Brains.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Wei-Jia ZhangLaboratory of Deep-Sea Microbial Cell Biology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572000, China.
Long-Fei WuInternational Associated Laboratory of Evolution and Development of Magnetotactic Multicellular Organisms, CNRS-Marseille F-13402 France/ CAS-Sanya 572000, China.

Funding

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique LIA-MagMCFondation Aix-Marseille Universite A-M-AAP-EI-17-07-170301-07.50-WU-ENVNational Natural Science Foundation of China 91751108National Natural Science Foundation of China 91751202
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Marine environments are generally characterized by low bulk concentrations of nutrients that are susceptible to steady or intermittent motion driven by currents and local turbulence. Marine bacteria have therefore developed strategies, such as very fast-swimming and the exploitation of multiple directional sensing-response systems in order to efficiently migrate towards favorable places in nutrient gradients. The magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) even utilize Earth's magnetic field to facilitate downward swimming into the oxic-anoxic interface, which is the most favorable place for their persistence and proliferation, in chemically stratified sediments or water columns. To ensure the desired flagella-propelled motility, marine MTBs have evolved an exquisite flagellar apparatus, and an extremely high number (tens of thousands) of flagella can be found on a single entity, displaying a complex polar, axial, bounce, and photosensitive magnetotactic behavior. In this review, we describe gene clusters, the flagellar apparatus architecture, and the swimming behavior of marine unicellular and multicellular magnetotactic bacteria. The physiological significance and mechanisms that govern these motions are discussed.

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Aquatic OrganismsBacteriaFlagellaMagnetic Fieldsflagellar number and positionmagnetic and photo-responsenorth-seeking and south-seeking

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PMID32188162
PMCPMC7175107

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