Microbial electron uptake in microbial electrosynthesis: a mini-review

R Karthikeyan, R Singh, A Bose - … of Industrial Microbiology and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… biological capacity of microbes to accept electrons from … microbial electrosynthesis (MES).
MES often involves the reduction of carbon dioxide to multi-carbon molecules, with electrons

Enhanced microbial electrosynthesis by using defined co-cultures

JS Deutzmann, AM Spormann - The ISME journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… -cultures coupling cathodic electron uptake with synthesis reactions via interspecies hydrogen
transfer may lay the foundation for an engineering strategy for microbial electrosynthesis. …

Toward Electrosynthesis with Uncoupled Extracellular Electron Uptake and Metabolic Growth: Enhancing Current Uptake with Rhodopseudomonas palustris

DFR Doud, LT Angenent - Environmental Science & Technology …, 2014 - ACS Publications
microbes at cathodes (ie, microbial electrosynthesis) is an attractive application of microbial
… Our findings agree with the magnitude of electron uptake rates that were previously …

An overview of cathode materials for microbial electrosynthesis of chemicals from carbon dioxide

N Aryal, F Ammam, SA Patil, D Pant - Green chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
… on the electron uptake capability of these microorganisms from the cathode. Microbes can
either utilize electrons … as the electron source. The molecular mechanisms involved in cathodic …

Modeling microbial electrosynthesis

B Korth, F Harnisch - Bioelectrosynthesis, 2019 - Springer
… Although the term microbial electrosynthesis comprises strictly … microbial metabolism
accepting electrons from the cathode). … Although direct electron uptake from cathodes is probably …

Extracellular enzymes facilitate electron uptake in biocorrosion and bioelectrosynthesis

JS Deutzmann, M Sahin, AM Spormann - MBio, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
… The high rates of microbial electron uptake observed during microbially … during microbial
electrosynthesis have been considered support for a direct electron uptake in these microbial

Microbial electrosynthesis—revisiting the electrical route for microbial production

K Rabaey, RA Rozendal - Nature reviews microbiology, 2010 - nature.com
electron transfer (EET) in bacteria and discuss the opportunities for microbial electrosynthesis
that different pathways exist for electron uptake in microorganisms. The following sections …

Microbial electrosynthesis: opportunities for microbial pure cultures

F Harnisch, JS Deutzmann, ST Boto… - Trends in …, 2024 - cell.com
… used to determine the electron uptake mechanisms of several methanogens. Several
Methanosarcina species were shown to be capable of direct electron uptake from electrodes via …

Thermophilic Moorella thermoautotrophica-immobilized cathode enhanced microbial electrosynthesis of acetate and formate from CO2

L Yu, Y Yuan, J Tang, S Zhou - Bioelectrochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
… of microbes on cathodes can improve their electron uptake and MES performance. …
thermoautotrophica on the electrodes influence its electron uptake activity and MES performance. …

Extracellular electron uptake: among autotrophs and mediated by surfaces

PL Tremblay, LT Angenent, T Zhang - Trends in biotechnology, 2017 - cell.com
… for the microbial electrosynthesis (MES) of useful products from the greenhouse gas CO
2 . Extracellular electron-transfer mechanisms involved in the acquisition of electrons from …