Trends in Microbiology
Microbe of the MonthMagnetospirillum gryphiswaldense
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KEY FACTS:
Isolated from sediment of the river Ryck near the town of Greifswald (Latin: 'Gryphiswaldia') in Germany in 1990 by D. Schüler, it was one of the first magnetotactic bacteria recovered in culture.
The founding species of the genus Magnetospirillum that comprises several other well studied magnetotactic species but also nonmagnetotactic members.
A spiral-shaped Gram-negative bacterium, producing 20–50 intracellular magnetite crystals arranged in a chain.
Microaerophilic, facultatively anaerobic,
TAXONOMY AND CLASSIFICATION:
KINGDOM: Bacteria
PHYLUM: Proteobacteria
CLASS: Alphaproteobacteria
ORDER: Rhodospirillales
FAMILY: Rhodospirillaceae
GENUS: Magnetospirillum
SPECIES: gryphiswaldense
Acknowledgments
Work in the Schüler laboratory is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Grant No. Schu 1080/9-2), the German BMBF (Grant No. 031B0849), and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant No. 692637 to D.S.). Work in the Lefevre laboratory is supported by the French National Agency for Research (SIGMAG: ANR-18-CE31-0003 and PHOSTORE: ANR-19-CE01-0005-02). Some of the images were provided/recorded by Claus Lang
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