{"id":175192,"date":"2023-10-30T23:26:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T04:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/biosynthesis-of-magnetic-sensor-in-magnetic-bacteria-revealed-through-expression-of-foreign-proteins"},"modified":"2023-10-30T23:26:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T04:26:59","slug":"biosynthesis-of-magnetic-sensor-in-magnetic-bacteria-revealed-through-expression-of-foreign-proteins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/biosynthesis-of-magnetic-sensor-in-magnetic-bacteria-revealed-through-expression-of-foreign-proteins","title":{"rendered":"Biosynthesis of magnetic sensor in magnetic bacteria revealed through expression of foreign proteins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biosynthesis-of-magnetic-sensor-in-magnetic-bacteria-revealed-through-expression-of-foreign-proteins2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A German-French research team led by Bayreuth microbiologist Dirk Sch\u00fcler presents <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/doi\/10.1128\/mbio.01649-23\">new findings<\/a> on the functionality of proteins in magnetic bacteria in the journal <i>mBio<\/i>. The research is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.asm.org\/doi\/10.1128\/mbio.03282-22\">previous results<\/a> published recently in the same journal.<\/p>\n<p>In this study, the Bayreuth scientists used <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bacteria<\/a> of the species Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense to decipher the function of genes that are presumably involved in the biosynthesis of magnetosomes in other magnetic bacteria that are difficult to access.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetic bacteria contain <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic particles<\/a> consisting of nanocrystals of an iron mineral inside their cells. These organelle-like particles are known in research as magnetosomes. Like links in a chain, well over 20 of these particles are regularly lined up one after the other. The magnetic moments of the individual crystals add up so that the chain\u2014similar to a compass needle\u2014has the function of a magnetic sensor: It aligns the bacterial cell in the relatively weak magnetic field of the Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German-French research team led by Bayreuth microbiologist Dirk Sch\u00fcler presents new findings on the functionality of proteins in magnetic bacteria in the journal mBio. The research is based on previous results published recently in the same journal. In this study, the Bayreuth scientists used bacteria of the species Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense to decipher the function [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}