Thermally activated charge transport in microbial protein nanowires

S Lampa-Pastirk, JP Veazey, KA Walsh, GT Feliciano… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens requires the expression of conductive protein
filaments or pili to respire extracellular electron acceptors such as iron oxides and uranium …

Structural basis for metallic-like conductivity in microbial nanowires

NS Malvankar, M Vargas, K Nevin, PL Tremblay… - MBio, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Direct measurement of multiple physical properties of Geobacter sulfurreducens pili have
demonstrated that they possess metallic-like conductivity, but several studies have …

Geobacter sulfurreducens pili support ohmic electronic conduction in aqueous solution

NL Ing, TD Nusca, AI Hochbaum - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens is a model biological catalyst in microbial
electrochemical devices. G. sulfurreducens forms electrically conductive, electrode …

Microbial nanowires–electron transport and the role of synthetic analogues

RCG Creasey, AB Mostert, TAH Nguyen, B Virdis… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Electron transfer is central to cellular life, from photosynthesis to respiration. In the case of
anaerobic respiration, some microbes have extracellular appendages that can be utilised to …

Assessing Possible Mechanisms of Micrometer-Scale Electron Transfer in Heme-Free Geobacter sulfurreducens Pili

X Ru, P Zhang, DN Beratan - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2019 - ACS Publications
The electrically conductive pili of Geobacter sulfurreducens are of both fundamental and
practical interest. They facilitate extracellular and interspecies electron transfer (ET) and also …

Microbial nanowires: a new paradigm for biological electron transfer and bioelectronics

NS Malvankar, DR Lovley - ChemSusChem, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery that Geobacter sulfurreducens can produce protein filaments with metallic‐
like conductivity, known as microbial nanowires, that facilitate long‐range electron transport …

Electronic properties of conductive pili of the metal-reducing bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens probed by scanning tunneling microscopy

JP Veazey, G Reguera, SH Tessmer - … E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter …, 2011 - APS
The metal-reducing bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens produces conductive protein
appendages known as “pilus nanowires” to transfer electrons to metal oxides and to other …

[HTML][HTML] 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
Summary Long-range (> 10 μm) transport of electrons along networks of Geobacter
sulfurreducens protein filaments, known as microbial nanowires, has been invoked to …

Microbial nanowires: type IV pili or cytochrome filaments?

F Wang, L Craig, X Liu, C Rensing, EH Egelman - Trends in microbiology, 2023 - cell.com
A dynamic field of study has emerged involving long-range electron transport by
extracellular filaments in anaerobic bacteria, with Geobacter sulfurreducens being used as a …

Cryo-EM reveals the structural basis of long-range electron transport in a cytochrome-based bacterial nanowire

DJ Filman, SF Marino, JE Ward, L Yang… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Electrically conductive pili from Geobacter species, termed bacterial nanowires, are
intensely studied for their biological significance and potential in the development of new …