ArticleScience advances2022
Intracellular silicification by early-branching magnetotactic bacteria.
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- GdbMTB: a manually curated genomic database of magnetotactic bacteria.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026Article
- Phylogenetic and genomic insights into magnetosome biomineralization in magnetotacticApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
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- Magnetotactic bacteria affiliated with diverse Pseudomonadota families biomineralize intracellular Ca-carbonate.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Will tomorrow's mineral materials be grown?Microbial biotechnology · 2023Article
- Bullet-shaped magnetosomes and metagenomic-based magnetosome gene profiles in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Insight into the metabolic potential and ecological function of a novel MagnetotacticFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Key gene networks that control magnetosome biomineralization in magnetotactic bacteria.National science review · 2023Article
- Mining of novel secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters from acid mine drainage.Scientific data · 2022Article
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Abstract
Biosilicification-the formation of biological structures composed of silica-has a wide distribution among eukaryotes; it plays a major role in global biogeochemical cycles, and has driven the decline of dissolved silicon in the oceans through geological time. While it has long been thought that eukaryotes are the only organisms appreciably affecting the biogeochemical cycling of Si, the recent discoveries of silica transporter genes and marked silicon accumulation in bacteria suggest that prokaryotes may play an underappreciated role in the Si cycle, particularly in ancient times. Here, we report a previously unidentified magnetotactic bacterium that forms intracellular, amorphous silica globules. This bacterium, phylogenetically affiliated with the phylum Nitrospirota, belongs to a deep-branching group of magnetotactic bacteria that also forms intracellular magnetite magnetosomes and sulfur inclusions. This contribution reveals intracellularly controlled silicification within prokaryotes and suggests a previously unrecognized influence on the biogeochemical Si cycle that was operational during early Earth history.
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