The electrically conductive pili of Geobacter soli

S Zhuo, G Yang, L Zhuang - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Electrically conductive pili (e-pili) enable electron transport over multiple cell lengths to
extracellular environments and play an important role in extracellular electron transfer (EET) …

Expressing the Geobacter metallireducens PilA in Geobacter sulfurreducens Yields Pili with Exceptional Conductivity

Y Tan, RY Adhikari, NS Malvankar, JE Ward… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The electrically conductive pili (e-pili) of Geobacter sulfurreducens serve as a model for a
novel strategy for long-range extracellular electron transfer. e-pili are also a new class of …

Pili Expression in Geobacter sulfurreducens Lacking the Putative Gene for the PilB Pilus Assembly Motor

T Ueki, DJF Walker, KP Nevin, JE Ward, TL Woodard… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Multiple lines of evidence suggest that electrically conductive pili (e-pili) are an important
conduit for long-range electron transport in Geobacter sulfurreducens, a common model …

[HTML][HTML] Conductivity of individual Geobacter pili

RY Adhikari, NS Malvankar, MT Tuominen, DR Lovley - Rsc Advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The electrically conductive pili of Geobacter species have been proposed to play an
important role in long-range electron transfer to Fe (III) oxides and other cells and have …

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
Geobacter sulfurreducens is commonly employed as a model for the study of extracellular
electron transport mechanisms in the Geobacter species. Deletion of pilB, which is known to …

[HTML][HTML] Geobacter Protein Nanowires

DR Lovley, DJF Walker - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The study of electrically conductive protein nanowires in Geobacter sulfurreducens has led
to new concepts for long-range extracellular electron transport, as well as for the …

[HTML][HTML] The Low Conductivity of Geobacter uraniireducens Pili Suggests a Diversity of Extracellular Electron Transfer Mechanisms in the Genus Geobacter

Y Tan, RY Adhikari, NS Malvankar, JE Ward… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Studies on the mechanisms for extracellular electron transfer in Geobacter species have
primarily focused on Geobacter sulfurreducens, but the poor conservation of genes for some …

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 …

Comparative transcriptomic insights into the mechanisms of electron transfer in Geobacter co-cultures with activated carbon and magnetite

S Zheng, F Liu, M Li, L Xiao, O Wang - Science China Life Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Both activated carbon and magnetite have been reported to promote the syntrophic growth
of Geobacter metallireducens and Geobacter sulfurreducens co-cultures, the first model to …

The electrically conductive pili of Geobacter species are a recently evolved feature for extracellular electron transfer

DE Holmes, Y Dang, DJF Walker… - Microbial …, 2016 - microbiologyresearch.org
The electrically conductive pili (e-pili) of Geobactersulfurreducens have environmental and
practical significance because they can facilitate electron transfer to insoluble Fe (III) oxides; …