[PDF][PDF] Geobacter sulfurreducens

M Tabares, H Dulay, G Reguera - Trends in Microbiology, 2020 - Elsevier
Geobacter sulfurreducens was the second Geobacter recovered in pure culture, yet the first
to have a genetic system and a sequenced genome. It quickly became the model …

Molecular evidence for the adaptive evolution of Geobacter sulfurreducens to perform dissimilatory iron reduction in natural environments

X Liu, Y Ye, K Xiao, C Rensing… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The electrically conductive pili (e‐pili) of Geobacter species enable extracellular electron
transfer to insoluble metallic minerals, electrodes and other microbial species, which confers …

A pilin chaperone required for the expression of electrically conductive Geobacter sulfurreducens pili

X Liu, J Zhan, X Jing, S Zhou… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanisms controlling the expression of the electrically conductive pili (e‐pili) of Geobacter
species are of interest because of the important role of e‐pili in diverse biogeochemical …

Low Energy Atomic Models Suggesting a Pilus Structure that could Account for Electrical Conductivity of Geobacter sulfurreducens Pili

K Xiao, NS Malvankar, C Shu, E Martz, DR Lovley… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The metallic-like electrical conductivity of Geobacter sulfurreducens pili has been
documented with multiple lines of experimental evidence, but there is only a rudimentary …

Comparative Analysis of Type IV Pilin in Desulfuromonadales

C Shu, K Xiao, Q Yan, X Sun - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
During anaerobic respiration, the bacteria Geobacter sulfurreducens can transfer electrons
to extracellular electron accepters through its pilus. G. sulfurreducens pili have been …

Pili for nanowires

T Boesen, LP Nielsen, A Schramm - Nature Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
Extracellular electron transport in Geobacter has long been ascribed to conductive pili.
Cryogenic electron microscopy now reveals non-conductive filaments made of pilin …

Two isoforms of Geobacter sulfurreducens PilA have distinct roles in pilus biogenesis, cytochrome localization, extracellular electron transfer, and biofilm formation

LV Richter, SJ Sandler, RM Weis - Journal of bacteriology, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Type IV pili of Geobacter sulfurreducens are composed of PilA monomers and are essential
for long-range extracellular electron transfer to insoluble Fe (III) oxides and graphite anodes …

A genetic system for Geobacter metallireducens: role of the flagellin and pilin in the reduction of Fe(III) oxide

PL Tremblay, M Aklujkar, C Leang… - Environmental …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Geobacter metallireducens is an important model organism for many novel aspects of
extracellular electron exchange and the anaerobic degradation of aromatic compounds, but …

Structure of Geobacter pili reveals secretory rather than nanowire behaviour

Y Gu, V Srikanth, AI Salazar-Morales, R Jain… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Extracellular electron transfer by Geobacter species through surface appendages known as
microbial nanowires is important in a range of globally important environmental phenomena …

A Geobacter sulfurreducens strain expressing Pseudomonas aeruginosa type IV pili localizes OmcS on pili but is deficient in Fe (III) oxide reduction and current …

X Liu, PL Tremblay, NS Malvankar… - Applied and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
The conductive pili of Geobacter species play an important role in electron transfer to Fe (III)
oxides, in long-range electron transport through current-producing biofilms, and in direct …