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
Recently, the expression of pili was directly verified by immunogold labeling against peptide…
Actually, the structural function of conductive pili in biofilm formation has been suggested but …

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

DR Lovley, DE Holmes - Journal of bacteriology, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… ” are the electrically conductive pili (e-pili) of the Geobacter speciesGeobacter e-pili
are type IV pili (3) that have only recently evolved the characteristics that yield high electrical

Cytochromes in Extracellular Electron Transfer in Geobacter

T Ueki - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
electrically conductive pili (e-pili) and c-type cytochromes for the direct EET. The biological
function and electronics applications of the e-pili … This adapted evolution of the PilA deletion …

Molecular evidence for the adaptive evolution of Geobacter sulfurreducens to perform dissimilatory iron reduction in natural environments

…, Y Ye, K Xiao, C Rensing, S Zhou - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… the truncation of pilin in Geobacter species confers adaption … pilin genes that conductive pili
are a recently evolved feature. … oxides reduction in Geobacter species expressing long pilins…

Generation of high current densities in Geobacter sulfurreducens lacking the putative gene for the PilB pilus assembly motor

T Ueki, DJF Walker, KP Nevin, JE Ward… - Microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
… strategy for evaluating the role of electrically conductive pili (e-pili) in G. sulfurreducens …
homologous to other bacterial PilB ATPases and contains highly conserved features, such as …

Cytochrome OmcS is not essential for extracellular electron transport via conductive pili in Geobacter sulfurreducens strain KN400

…, DJF Walker, Y Li, D Meier, S Pinches… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Therefore, we investigated the function of OmcS in the G. … conductive pili, are defective in
long-range electron transfer (19, 26, 27, 33). The findings reported here and in another recent

The electrically conductive pili of Geobacter soli

S Zhuo, G Yang, L Zhuang - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
… e-Pili of Geobacter species that function as electron donating … gene of strain GSP changed
significantly compared with the wild-… are a recently evolved feature for extracellular electron …

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

DR Lovley, J Yao - Trends in Biotechnology, 2021 - cell.com
evolving highly effective strategies for dealing with electrons. … on the pilin monomer, these
electrically conductive pilin-based … conductive protein nanowires has grown beyond Geobacter

Significance of a minor pilin PilV in biofilm cohesion of Geobacter sulfurreducens

X Chen, G Yang, X Quan, S Zhu, B Qin, D Shou… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
… sulfurreducens are conductive nanowires which directly mediate EET … species, a minor pilin
PilV contributes to the adhesive function of pilus by promoting the display of adhesin on pilus

[HTML][HTML] On the existence of pilin-based microbial nanowires

DR Lovley - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… of the pilin protein specifically and dramatically changed the … of Geobacter strains that
express poorly conductive pili … , but are an important feature in Geobacter extracellular electron …