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Overview

The Komeili Lab is part of the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology at the University of California in Berkeley. We are broadly interested in organelle formation in bacteria.​ We use the magnetosome organelles of magnetotactic bacteria as a model to understand the molecular mechanisms of compartmentalization and biomineral production. We are also beginning to explore the newly describe ferrosomes of bacteria and archaea as a new model organelle.

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Komeili lab group

Recent publications & preprints

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A network of coiled-coil and actin-like proteins controls the subcellular organization of magnetosome organelles in deep-branching magnetotactic bacteria (2025)

bioRxiv

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Intrinsic and extrinsic determinants of conditional localization of Mms6 to magnetosome organelles in Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1 (2024)

Journal of Bacteriology

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