[HTML][HTML] Widespread extracellular electron transfer pathways for charging microbial cytochrome OmcS nanowires via periplasmic cytochromes PpcABCDE

PC Portela, CC Shipps, C Shen, V Srikanth… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) via microbial nanowires drives globally-important
environmental processes and biotechnological applications for bioenergy, bioremediation …

Nature's conductors: what can microbial multi-heme cytochromes teach us about electron transport and biological energy conversion?

GW Chong, AA Karbelkar, MY El-Naggar - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Microorganisms can acquire energy from the environment by extending their electron
transport chains to external solid electron donors or acceptors. This process, known as …

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

SE Yalcin, NS Malvankar - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Extracellular electron transfer via filamentous protein appendages called 'microbial
nanowires' has long been studied in Geobacter and other bacteria because of their crucial …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial biofilms as living photoconductors due to ultrafast electron transfer in cytochrome OmcS nanowires

J Neu, CC Shipps, MJ Guberman-Pfeffer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Light-induced microbial electron transfer has potential for efficient production of value-added
chemicals, biofuels and biodegradable materials owing to diversified metabolic pathways …

[HTML][HTML] Cell-secreted flavins bound to membrane cytochromes dictate electron transfer reactions to surfaces with diverse charge and pH

A Okamoto, S Kalathil, X Deng, K Hashimoto… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
The variety of solid surfaces to and from which microbes can deliver electrons by
extracellular electron transport (EET) processes via outer-membrane c-type cytochromes …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular cytochrome nanowires appear to be ubiquitous in prokaryotes

DP Baquero, V Cvirkaite-Krupovic, SS Hu, JL Fields… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Electrically conductive appendages from the anaerobic bacterium Geobacter
sulfurreducens, recently identified as extracellular cytochrome nanowires (ECNs), have …

Coherence-assisted electron diffusion across the multi-heme protein-based bacterial nanowire

Y Eshel, U Peskin, N Amdursky - Nanotechnology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Biological electron transfer (ET) is one of the most studied biochemical processes due to its
immense importance in biology. For many years, biological ET was explained using the …

Nanotechnology to rescue bacterial bidirectional extracellular electron transfer in bioelectrochemical systems

S Kalathil, D Pant - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
An electrically active bacterium transports its metabolically generated electrons to insoluble
substrates such as electrodes via a process known as extracellular electron transport (EET) …

Happy together: microbial communities that hook up to swap electrons

DR Lovley - The ISME journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The discovery of direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) and cable bacteria has
demonstrated that microbial cells can exchange electrons over long distances (μm–cm) …

Microbial extracellular electron transfer and strategies for engineering electroactive microorganisms

J Zhao, F Li, Y Cao, X Zhang, T Chen, H Song… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electroactive microorganisms (EAMs) are ubiquitous in nature and have attracted
considerable attention as they can be used for energy recovery and environmental …