ReviewNPJ biofilms and microbiomes2022
Magnetotactic bacteria and magnetofossils: ecology, evolution and environmental implications.
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- Natural Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Produced by Aquatic Magnetotactic Bacteria as Ideal Nanozymes for Nano-Guided Biosensing Platforms-A Systematic Review.Biosensors · 2025Pooled it
- Magnetotaxis in an anaerobic ciliate via tripartite syntrophy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Image-based physical characterization of magnetotactic bacteria from an environmental sample.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Biosynthesis and function of magnetic organelles in magnetotactic bacteria.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- GdbMTB: a manually curated genomic database of magnetotactic bacteria.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026Article
- No evidence for the putative nitric oxide sensor NsrR as a key regulator of magnetosome formation in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- MagnetotacticISME communications · 2026Article
- Selecting the optimal cell migration assay: fundamentals and practical guidelines.Nature methods · 2026Review
- Innovative Nanocarriers: Magnetosomes in the Fight against Cancer.Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry · 2026Review
- Updates on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterization of Magnetotactic Bacteria for Biosensor Applications.Biosensors · 2025Review
- Revealing the diversity of bacterial and archaeal organelles via comparative genomics.Molecular biology of the cell · 2025Review
- Exploring the Complex Interplay of Anisotropies in Magnetosomes of Magnetotactic Bacteria.ACS omega · 2025Article
- Magnetotactic bacteria affiliated with diverse Pseudomonadota families biomineralize intracellular Ca-carbonate.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Therapeutic Innovations in Nanomedicine: Exploring the Potential of Magnetotactic Bacteria and Bacterial Magnetosomes.International journal of nanomedicine · 2025Review
- Flexible iron: disorder in the ironome brings order to protein structure and function.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2025Article
- Bacterial Organelles in Iron Physiology.Molecular microbiology · 2024Review
- Linking morphology, genome, and metabolic activity of uncultured magnetotactic Nitrospirota at the single-cell level.Microbiome · 2024Article
- Primordial magnetotaxis in putative giant paleoproterozoic magnetofossils.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Unveiling the role of inorganic nanoparticles in Earth's biochemical evolution through electron transfer dynamics.iScience · 2024Review
- Nitric oxide sensor NsrR is the key direct regulator of magnetosome formation and nitrogen metabolism in Magnetospirillum.Nucleic acids research · 2024Article
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Abstract
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are a group of phylogenetically diverse and morphologically varied microorganisms with a magnetoresponsive capability called magnetotaxis or microbial magnetoreception. MTB are a distinctive constituent of the microbiome of aquatic ecosystems because they use Earth's magnetic field to align themselves in a north or south facing direction and efficiently navigate to their favored microenvironments. They have been identified worldwide from diverse aquatic and waterlogged microbiomes, including freshwater, saline, brackish and marine ecosystems, and some extreme environments. MTB play important roles in the biogeochemical cycling of iron, sulphur, phosphorus, carbon and nitrogen in nature and have been recognized from in vitro cultures to sequester heavy metals like selenium, cadmium, and tellurium, which makes them prospective candidate organisms for aquatic pollution bioremediation. The role of MTB in environmental systems is not limited to their lifespan; after death, fossil magnetosomal magnetic nanoparticles (known as magnetofossils) are a promising proxy for recording paleoenvironmental change and geomagnetic field history. Here, we summarize the ecology, evolution, and environmental function of MTB and the paleoenvironmental implications of magnetofossils in light of recent discoveries.
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