Geobacter Strains Expressing Poorly Conductive Pili Reveal Constraints on Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer Mechanisms

T Ueki, KP Nevin, AE Rotaru, LY Wang, JE Ward… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Cytochrome-to-cytochrome electron transfer and electron transfer along conduits of multiple
extracellular magnetite grains are often proposed as strategies for direct interspecies …

Influence of the major pilA transcriptional regulator in electrochemical responses of Geobacter sulfureducens PilR-deficient mutant biofilm formed on FTO electrodes

GA Huerta-Miranda, AI Arroyo-Escoto, X Burgos… - …, 2019 - Elsevier
Geobacter sulfurreducens is a model organism for understanding the role of bacterial
structures in extracellular electron transfer mechanism (EET). This kind of bacteria relies on …

Atomic and Electronic Structure of Pilus from Geobacter sulfurreducens through QM/MM Calculations: Evidence for Hole Transfer in Aromatic Residues

LP Mezzina Freitas, GT Feliciano - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Long-range electron transport has been widely and experimentally reported in Geobacter
sulfurreducens pilus protein. However, a better understanding of the still undefined …

Biological synthesis of high-conductive pili in aerobic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa

X Liu, S Wang, A Xu, L Zhang, H Liu, LZ Ma - Applied microbiology and …, 2019 - Springer
Bioelectrical nanowires as ecomaterials have great potential on environmental applications.
A wide range of bacteria can express type IV pili (T4P), which are long protein fibers …

Comparative transcriptomic insights into the mechanisms of electron transfer in Geobacter co-cultures with activated carbon and magnetite

S Zheng, F Liu, M Li, L Xiao, O Wang - Science China Life Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Both activated carbon and magnetite have been reported to promote the syntrophic growth
of Geobacter metallireducens and Geobacter sulfurreducens co-cultures, the first model to …

Spatially Resolved Chemical Analysis of Geobacter sulfurreducens Cell Surface

N Lebedev, RM Stroud, MD Yates, LM Tender - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Geobacter sulfurreducens is of interest for the highest efficiency of power generation and
extremely long extracellular electron transfer (EET) between the bacterium and electrodes …

[引用][C] Models are useful until high-resolution structures are available

F Wang, L Craig, X Liu, C Rensing, EH Egelman - Trends in microbiology, 2023 - cell.com
Our review [1] was about cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of Geobacter T4P,
formed by PilA-N and PilA-C, and cytochrome filaments. In response, Lovley [2] argues that …

Cytochrome OmcS is not essential for extracellular electron transport via conductive pili in Geobacter sulfurreducens strain KN400

X Liu, DE Holmes, DJF Walker, Y Li… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The multi-heme c-type cytochrome OmcS is one of the central components used for
extracellular electron transport in the Geobacter sulfurreducens strain DL-1, but its role in …

PilR, a Transcriptional Regulator for Pilin and Other Genes Required for Fe(III) Reduction in Geobacter sulfurreducens

K Juárez, BC Kim, K Nevin, L Olvera… - Journal of molecular …, 2009 - karger.com
Growth using Fe (III) as a terminal electron acceptor is a critical physiological process in
Geobacter sulfurreducens. However, the mechanisms of electron transfer during Fe (III) …

Phylogenetic and structural diversity of aromatically dense pili from environmental metagenomes

MS Bray, J Wu, CC Padilla, FJ Stewart… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electroactive type IV pili, or e‐pili, are used by some microbial species for extracellular
electron transfer. Recent studies suggest that e‐pili may be more phylogenetically and …