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Hidden Talents: Silent Gene Clusters Encoding Magnetic Organelle Biosynthesis in a Non-Magnetotactic Phototrophic Bacterium
M. V. Dziuba, A. Paulus, L. Schramm…·D. Schueler
The paper identifies a horizontally transferred gene cluster in a non-magnetotactic bacterium that can encode magnetosome biosynthesis but is transcriptionally silenced.
DOI 10.1101/2022.04.19.488322