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

X Liu, Y Ye, K Xiao, C Rensing… - 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…

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 …

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 …

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
pilus assembly motor protein for type IV pili in other bacteria, has been proposed as an effective
strategy for evaluating the role of electrically conductive pili (e-pili… elucidate function may …

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

X Liu, DE Holmes, DJF Walker, Y Li… - 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

[HTML][HTML] Microbial nanowires

DR Lovley - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
electrically conductive filaments emanating from Geobacter sulfurreducens demonstrating a
predominance of conductive pili (e-pili… -pili, demonstrating that nanowires have also evolved

The electrically conductive pili of Geobacter soli

S Zhuo, G Yang, L Zhuang - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
… of electrically conductive pili (e-pili) of Geobacter species are of interest because of its
application prospects in electronic materials. e-Pili … are a recently evolved feature for extracellular …

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

DR Lovley - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Geobacter sulfurreducens produces electrically conductive … of the pilin protein specifically
and dramatically changed the … are an important feature in Geobacter extracellular electron …

[HTML][HTML] Biofilm Biology and Engineering of Geobacter and Shewanella spp. for Energy Applications

Y Hu, Y Wang, X Han, Y Shan, F Li… - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
conductivity and 3-fold higher stiffness than OmcS nanowires. Moreover, they recently
demonstrated the conductivity of pili … sulfurreducens produces abundant electrically conductive pili