Seeing is believing: novel imaging techniques help clarify microbial nanowire structure and function

DR Lovley, NS Malvankar - Environmental microbiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Novel imaging approaches have recently helped to clarify the properties of 'microbial
nanowires'. G eobacter sulfurreducens pili are actual wires. They possess metallic‐like …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular density of states in bacterial nanowires

MY El-Naggar, YA Gorby, W Xia, KH Nealson - Biophysical journal, 2008 - cell.com
The recent discovery of electrically conductive bacterial appendages has significant
physiological, ecological, and biotechnological implications, but the mechanism of electron …

Structural and functional insights into the conductive pili of Geobacter sulfurreducens revealed in molecular dynamics simulations

GT Feliciano, RJ Steidl, G Reguera - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Geobacter sulfurreducens (GS) electronically connects with extracellular electron acceptors
using conductive protein filaments or pili. To gain insights into their role as biological …

Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 nanowires are outer membrane and periplasmic extensions of the extracellular electron transport components

S Pirbadian, SE Barchinger… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Bacterial nanowires offer an extracellular electron transport (EET) pathway for linking the
respiratory chain of bacteria to external surfaces, including oxidized metals in the …

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

DR Lovley, DE Holmes - Journal of bacteriology, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Electrically conductive protein nanowires appear to be widespread in the microbial world
and are a revolutionary “green” material for the fabrication of electronic devices. Electrically …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of the type IVa major pilin from the electrically conductive bacterial nanowires of Geobacter sulfurreducens

PN Reardon, KT Mueller - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2013 - ASBMB
Several species of δ proteobacteria are capable of reducing insoluble metal oxides as well
as other extracellular electron acceptors. These bacteria play a critical role in the cycling of …

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 …

Direct Observation of Electrically Conductive Pili Emanating from Geobacter sulfurreducens

X Liu, DJF Walker, SS Nonnenmann, D Sun, DR Lovley - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Geobacter sulfurreducens is a model microbe for elucidating the mechanisms for
extracellular electron transfer in several biogeochemical cycles, bioelectrochemical …

Cryo-EM structure of an extracellular Geobacter OmcE cytochrome filament reveals tetrahaem packing

F Wang, K Mustafa, V Suciu, K Joshi, CH Chan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrically conductive appendages from the anaerobic bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens
were first observed two decades ago, with genetic and biochemical data suggesting that …

Microbial nanowires: an electrifying tale

S Sure, ML Ackland, AAJ Torriero… - …, 2016 - microbiologyresearch.org
Electromicrobiology has gained momentum in the last 10 years with advances in microbial
fuel cells and the discovery of microbial nanowires (MNWs). The list of MNW-producing …