[HTML][HTML] The crystal structure of a biological insulated transmembrane molecular wire

MJ Edwards, GF White, JN Butt, DJ Richardson… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
A growing number of bacteria are recognized to conduct electrons across their cell
envelope, and yet molecular details of the mechanisms supporting this process remain …

Comment on “on electrical conductivity of microbial nanowires and biofilms” by SM Strycharz-Glaven, RM Snider, A. Guiseppi-Elie and LM Tender, energy environ. sci …

NS Malvankar, MT Tuominen, DR Lovley - Energy & Environmental …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
A paper published in Energy and Environmental Science by Strycharz-Glaven et al.
suggests that electron transport along the pili and through the conductive biofilms of …

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 …

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 …

Nanoparticle facilitated extracellular electron transfer in microbial fuel cells

X Jiang, J Hu, AM Lieber, CS Jackan, JC Biffinger… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have been the focus of substantial research interest due to their
potential for long-term, renewable electrical power generation via the metabolism of a broad …

Engineering Geobacter pili to produce metal: organic filaments

E Szmuc, DJF Walker, D Kireev, D Akinwande… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The organized self-assembly of conductive biological structures holds promise for creating
new bioelectronic devices. In particular, Geobacter sulfurreducens type IVa pili have proven …

Magnetite compensates for the lack of a pilin‐associated c‐type cytochrome in extracellular electron exchange

F Liu, AE Rotaru, PM Shrestha… - Environmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoscale magnetite can facilitate microbial extracellular electron transfer that plays an
important role in biogeochemical cycles, bioremediation and several bioenergy strategies …

An Escherichia coli Chassis for Production of Electrically Conductive Protein Nanowires

T Ueki, DJF Walker, TL Woodard, KP Nevin… - ACS synthetic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Geobacter sulfurreducens' pilin-based electrically conductive protein nanowires (e-PNs) are
a revolutionary electronic material. They offer novel options for electronic sensing …

Lack of cytochrome involvement in long-range electron transport through conductive biofilms and nanowires of Geobacter sulfurreducens

NS Malvankar, MT Tuominen, DR Lovley - Energy & Environmental …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Two competing models for long-range electron transport through the conductive biofilms and
nanowires of Geobacter sulfurreducens exist. In one model electrons are transported via pili …

Structure of Geobacter OmcZ filaments suggests extracellular cytochrome polymers evolved independently multiple times

F Wang, CH Chan, V Suciu, K Mustafa, M Ammend… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
While early genetic and low-resolution structural observations suggested that extracellular
conductive filaments on metal-reducing organisms such as Geobacter were composed of …