Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-23-2006
Publisher
Cell Press
Abstract
Sensing of magnetic fields by living organisms — magnetosensing — is best understood in magnetotactic bacteria. Recently work has provided new insight into the biogenesis of bacterial magnetosomes, and links these organelles to a newly recognized prokaryotic cytoskeletal filament which organizes magnetosomes into a sensory structure capable of aligning cells with the geomagnetic field.
Recommended Citation
Craig Stephens, Bacterial Cell Biology: Managing Magnetosomes, Current Biology, Volume 16, Issue 10, 23 May 2006, Pages R363-R365, ISSN 0960-9822, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2006.04.011.
