The Nano-Magnetic Dancing of Bacteria Hand-in-Hand with Oxygen
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Talib, Ayesha; Khan, Abid Ali; Ahmed, Haroon; Jilani, Ghulam
- Source
- Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology. January 2017 60
- Subject
- Magnetotactic Bacteria
Bacillus
Aerobic
Magnetosomes
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1516-8913
Magnetotactic bacteria are mostly microaerophilic found at the interface between oxic-anoxic zones. We report a magnetotactic bacterial strain isolated from an oil refinery sludge sample that grows aerobically in simple chemical growth medium, 9K. They open a new window of isolation of magnetic nanoparticles through an easy natural living system.