BacterioFiles 277 - Sailor Cells Store Selenium

Magnetotactic bacteria with 

magnetosome chains visible

From: Edouard Alphandéry

Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol.

DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2014.00005

This episode: Bacteria with their own magnetic compass can also clean up and recover toxic but valuable elements!
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Journal Paper:
Tanaka M, Knowles W, Brown R, Hondow N, Arakaki A, Baldwin S, Staniland S, Matsunaga T. 2016. Biomagnetic Recovery and Bioaccumulation of Selenium Granules in Magnetotactic Bacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 82:3886–3891.

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