Some Additional Publications on Magnetotactic Bacteria

Bellini, S., Su di un particolare comportamento di batteri d’acqua dolce (About a particular behavior of freshwater bacteria), Institute of Microbiology, University of Pavia, Italy, 1963.

Original (in Italian): (http://www.calpoly.edu/~rfrankel/Bellini.1.pdf)

English Translation: (http://www.calpoly.edu/~rfrankel/SBellini1.pdf)

Bellini, S., Ulteriori studi sui “batteri magnetosensibili” (Further studies on “magnetosensitive bacteria”), Institute of Microbiology, University of Pavia, Italy, 1963.

Original (in Italian): (http://www.calpoly.edu/~rfrankel/Bellini.2.pdf)

English Translation: (http://www.calpoly.edu/~rfrankel/SBellini2.pdf)

Adamkiewicz,  V.W., A. Authier, S. Dumont, S. Garzon, S. Leduc, D. Morency, N. Nakhostin, H. Strykowski, A Simple Procedure for Enriching and Cultivating Magnetic Bacteria in Low Agar Medium. J. Microbiol. Methods 13, 255-258, 1991.

Amann, R., Rossello-Mora, R., Flies, C., Schüler, D., Phylogeny and in situ identificati on of magnetotactic bacteria. In: E. Baeuerlein (ed.), Biomineralization of Nano- and Microstructures. 2nd ed., Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2004.

Arakaki, A., Webb, J. & Matsunaga, T. A novel protein tightly bound to bacterial magnetite particles in Magnetospirillum magneticum strain AMB-1. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 8745-8750 (2003).

Arnoldi M, CM Kacher, E Baeuerlein, M Radmacher, M Fritz, Elastic properties of the cell wall of Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense investigated by atomic force microscopy. Appl. Phys. A 66, S613-S617, 1998.

Arnoldi M, M Fritz, E Baeuerlein, M Radmacher, E Sackmann, A Boulbitch, Bacterial turgor pressure can be measured by atomic force microscopy. Phys. Rev. E, 62, 1034-1044, 2000.

Baeuerlein, E, Biomineralization of unicellular organisms: an unusual membrane biochemistry for the production of inorganic nano- and microstructures. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 42, 614-641, 2003.

Baeuerlein, E., Biomineralization: From Biology to Biotechnology and Medical Application. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2000.

Bahaj A.S., P.A.B. James, and F.D.Moeschler, An alternative method for the estimation of the magnetic moment of non-spherical magnetotactic bacteria. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 32, 5133-5135, 1996.

Balkwill, D. L., Maratea, D. & Blakemore, R. P. Ultrastructure of a magnetic spirillum. J. Bacteriol. 141, 1399-1408 (1980). (pdf)

Barber DJ, Scott ER. Origin of supposedly biogenic magnetite in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 99, 6556-6561 (2002)

Bazylinski DA, Blakemore RP (1983) Denitrification and assimilatory nitrate reduction in Aquaspirillum magnetotacticum. Appl Environ Microbiol 46:1118-1124

Bazylinski DA, Dean AJ, Williams TJ, Kimble-Long L, Middleton SL, Dubbels, BL (2004) Chemolithoautotrophy in the marine, magnetotactic bacterial strains MV-1 and MV-2. Arch Microbiol 182:373-387

Bazylinski DA, Moskowitz BM (1997) Microbial biomineralization of magnetic iron minerals: microbiology, magnetism, and environmental significance. In: Banfield JF, Nealson KH (eds) Geomicrobiology: interactions between microbes and minerals (Rev Mineral Vol 35), Mineralogical Society of America, Washington, DC, pp 181-223

Bazylinski, D. A. & Blakemore, R. P. Denitrification and assimilatory nitrate reduction in Aquaspirillum magnetotacticum. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 46, 1118-1124 (1983).

Bazylinski, D. A. & Blakemore, R. P. Nitrogen fixation (acetylene reduction) in Aquaspirillum magnetotacticum. Curr. Microbiol. 9, 305-308 (1983).

Bazylinski, D. A. & Moskowitz, B. M. Microbial biomineralization of magnetic iron minerals: microbiology, magnetism and environmental significance. Rev. Mineral. 35, 181-223 (1997).

Bazylinski, D. A., Dean, A. J., Schüler, D., Phillips, E. J. P. & Lovley, D. R. N₂-dependent growth and nitrogenase activity in the metal-metabolizing bacteria, Geobacter and Magnetospirillum species. Applied Environ. Microbiol. 2, 266-273 (2000).

Bazylinski, D. A., Frankel, R. B. & Jannasch, H. W. Anaerobic production of magnetite by a marine magnetotactic bacterium. Nature 334, 518-519 (1988).

Bazylinski, D. A., Structure and function of the bacterial magnetosome. American Society for Microbiology News 61, 337-343, 1995.

Bazylinski, D.A., Synthesis of the bacterial magnetosome: the making of a magnetic personality. Int. Microbiol. 2, 71-80, 1999.

Berson, A. E., Peters, M. R. & Waleh, N. S. Cloning and characterization of the recA gene of Aquaspirillum magnetotacticum. Arch. Microbiol. 152, 567-571 (1989).

Berson, A. E., Peters, M. R. & Waleh, N. S. Nucleotide sequence of recA gene of Aquaspirillum magnetotacticum. Nucl. Acids Res. 18, 675 (1990).

Berson, A.E., Hudson, D.V., Waleh, N.S. Cloning of a sequence of Aquaspirillum magnetotacticum that complements the aroD gene of Escherichia coli. Mol. Microbiol. 5, 2261-2264 (1991).

Bertani, L. E., J.S. Huang, B.A. Weir, J.L. Kirschvink, Evidence for Two Types of Subunits in the Bacterioferritin of Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum, Gene 201, 31-36 (1997).

Bertani, L. E., Weko, J., Phillips, K. V., Gray, R. F., Kirschvink, J. L. Physical and genetic characterization of the genome of Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum strain MS-1. Gene 264, 257-263 (2001).

Bharde A, Wani A, Shouche Y, Joy PA, Prasad BLV, Sastry M. 2005. Bacterial aerobic synthesis of nanocrystalline magnetite. J Am Chem Soc 127:9326-9327.

Blakemore, R. P. Magnetotactic bacteria. Science 190, 377-379 (1975). (pdf)

Blakemore, R. P., Magnetotactic Bacteria. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 36, 217-238 (1982).

Blakemore, R.P., D. Maratea, R.S. Wolfe, Isolation and Pure Culture of a Freshwater Magnetic Spirillum in Chemically Defined Medium. J. Bacteriol. 140, 720-729 (1979). (pdf)

Blakemore, R.P., N.A. Blakemore, D.A. Bazylinski, and T.T Moench, Magnetotactic Bacteria. in: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Vol. 3, eds. M. P. Bryant, N. Pfennig, J. T. Staley (Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1989) pp. 1882-1888.

Burgess, J.G., R. Kawaguchi, T. Sakaguchi, R.H. Thornhill, T. Matsunaga, Evolutionary Relationships Among Magnetospirillum Strains Inferred from Phylogenetic Analysis of 16S-rRNA Sequnces. J. Bacteriol. 175, 6689-6694 (1993).

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Chemla, Y.R., H.L. Grossman, T.S. Lee, J. Clarke, M. Adamkiewicz, B.B. Buchanan, A new study of bacterial motion: superconducting quantum interference device microscopy of magnetotactic bacteria. Biophysics J., 76, 3323-3330, (1999).

Clemett, S.J., Thomas-Keprta,K.L., Shimmin, J., Morphew, M., J. R. Mcintosh, D. A. Bazylinski, J. L. Kirschvink, S.J. Wentworth, D.S. McKay, H. Vali, E.K. Gibson JR., & C.S. Romanek: Crystal morphology of MV-1 magnetite. American Mineralogist,87: 1727-1730, 2002.

Cox, B.L., Popa, R., Bazylinski, D. A., Lanoil, B., Douglas, S., Belz, A., Engler, D. L. & Nealson, K. H. Organization and elemental analysis of P-, S-, and Fe-rich inclusions in a population of freshwater magnetococci. Geomicrobiol. J. 19, 387-406 (2002).

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Dean, A. J. & Bazylinski, D. A. Genome analysis of several magnetotactic bacterial strains using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Curr. Microbiol. 39, 219-225 (1999).

Diaz-Ricci JC, Woodford BJ, Kirschvink JL, Hoffman MR, Alteration of the magnetic properties of Aquaspirillum magnetotacticum by a pulse remagnetization technique. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57, 3248-3254 (1991).

Diaz-Ricci, J. C. & Kirschvink, J. L. Magnetic domain state and coercivity predictions for biogenic greigite (Fe₃S₄): a comparison of theory with magnetosome observations. J. Geophys. Res. 97, 17309-17315 (1992).

Dobeneck, T.v., N. Petersen, H. Vali, Bakterielle Magnetofossilien, Geowissenschaften in unserer Zeit 1, 27-35, 1987.

Dubbels, B.L., DiSpirito, A.A., Morton, J.D., Semrau, J.D., Neto, J.N. and Bazylinski, D.A., Evidence for a copper-dependent iron transport system in the marine, magnetotactic bacterium strain MV-1. Microbiology 150, 2931-2945, 2004.

Farina M, Kachar B, Lins U, Broderick R, Lins de Barros H. The observation of large magnetite (Fe3O4) crystals from magnetotactic bacteria by electron and atomic force microscopy. J. Microsc. 173, 1-8, 1994.

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Farina, M., H. Lins de Barros, D. Esquivel, J. Danon, Ultrastructure of a Magnetotactic Bacterium. Biol. Cell 48, 85-88 (1983).

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Fernandez de Henestrosa, A.R., Cune, J., Mazon, G., Dubbels, B.L., Bazylinski, D.A. and Barbe, J., Characterization of a new LexA binding motif in the marine magnetotactic bacterium strain MC-1. J. Bacteriol. 185, 4471-4482, 2003.

Flies, C., Jonkers, H., deBeer, D., Bosselmann, K., Boettcher, M., Schüler, D., Diversity and vertical distribution of magnetotactic bacteria along chemical gradients in freshwater microcosms. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 52: 185-195, 2005.

Flies, C., Peplies, J., Schüler, D., A combined approach for the characterization of uncultivated magnetotactic bacteria from various aquatic environments. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. In press, 2005.

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Greenberg M, K Canter, I Mahler, A Thornheim, Observation of magnetoreceptive behavior in a multicellular, magnetotactic, prokaryote in higher than geomagnetic fields. Biophysical J. 88, 1496-1499, 2005.

Gruenberg, K., Müller, E.C., Otto, A., Reszka, R., Linder, D., Kube, M., Reinhardt, R., Schüler, D., Biochemical and proteomic analysis of the magnetosome membrane in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70, 1040-1050, 2004

Gruenberg, K., Wawer, C., Tebo, B. M., Schüler, D., A large gene cluster encoding several magnetosome proteins is conserved in different species of magnetotactic bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67, 4573-4582 (2001).

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