Intrinsically conductive microbial nanowires for 'green'electronics with novel functions

DR Lovley, J Yao - Trends in Biotechnology, 2021 - cell.com
Microbes produce a diversity of protein filaments … conductivity to serve as the nanowire
component in electronic devices. Advantages of microbial nanowires over traditional nanowire

Protein nanowires: the electrification of the microbial world and maybe our own

DR Lovley, DE Holmes - Journal of bacteriology, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… rings to confer a metallic-like conductivity or that closer … consistent with the metallic-like
conductivity hypothesis (22, 24… A highly conductive fibre network enables centimetre-scale …

Electric field stimulates production of highly conductive microbial OmcZ nanowires

SE Yalcin, JP O'Brien, Y Gu, K Reiss, SM Yi… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
conductive microbial nanowires contain β-sheets contrast with previous studies that have
assumed that nanowires … used IR radiation from a wavelength-tunable quantum cascade laser (…

Biomimetic peptide nanowires designed for conductivity

RCG Creasey, AB Mostert, A Solemanifar… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
… Our observed conductivity (nS/m range) is also significantly lower than the microbial nanowires
that inspired this work (Table S1); however, to the best of our knowledge, no conductivity

[HTML][HTML] Protein nanowires with tunable functionality and programmable self-assembly using sequence-controlled synthesis

DM Shapiro, G Mandava, SE Yalcin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… The measured conductivity of bundled FimA A80W … of conductive microbial nanowire
networks 33 . It is important to note that the conductivity of individual filaments and the conductivity

The blind men and the filament: understanding structures and functions of microbial nanowires

SE Yalcin, NS Malvankar - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2020 - Elsevier
… of microbial nanowire structures have forced us to rethink the aforementioned decade-old
beliefs [9,13]. Rather than pili, we found nanowires … or visualized their network to determine the …

[PDF][PDF] Structure of microbial nanowires reveals stacked hemes that transport electrons over micrometers

F Wang, Y Gu, JP O'Brien, MY Sophia, SE Yalcin… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
… along networks of Geobacter sulfurreducens protein filaments, known as microbial nanowires
These nanowires were previously thought to be type IV pili composed of PilA protein. Here, …

Dissecting the Structural and Conductive Functions of Nanowires in Geobacter sulfurreducens Electroactive Biofilms

Y Ye, X Liu, KH Nealson, C Rensing, S Qin, S Zhou - Mbio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Accordingly, cytochromes and conductive nanowires have … , the conductive pilus hypothesis
suggests that G. sulfurreducens expresses conductive pili with metallic-like conductivity that …

A 300-fold conductivity increase in microbial cytochrome nanowires due to temperature-induced restructuring of hydrogen bonding networks

PJ Dahl, SM Yi, Y Gu, A Acharya, C Shipps, J Neu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
… provide a framework for rational design of nanowire structures with tunable conductivity by
modulating the redox potential of hemes and heme distortions by leveraging changes in the H…

[HTML][HTML] Long-distance electron transfer in a filamentous Gram-positive bacterium

Y Yang, Z Wang, C Gan, LH Klausen, R Bonné… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Conductive protein nanowires generated by Geobacter and several other microorganisms
… These protein nanowires can form conductive networks and contribute to direct intercellular …