Overview of electroactive microorganisms and electron transfer mechanisms in microbial electrochemistry

BS Thapa, T Kim, S Pandit, YE Song, YP Afsharian… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electroactive microorganisms acting as microbial electrocatalysts have intrinsic metabolisms
that mediate a redox potential difference between solid electrodes and microbes, leading to …

Microbial electrocatalysis: redox mediators responsible for extracellular electron transfer

X Liu, L Shi, JD Gu - Biotechnology advances, 2018 - Elsevier
Redox mediator plays an important role in extracellular electron transfer (EET) in many
environments wherein microbial electrocatalysis occurs actively. Because of the block of cell …

[HTML][HTML] Electro-microbiology as a promising approach towards renewable energy and environmental sustainability

J Ali, A Sohail, L Wang, M Rizwan Haider, S Mulk… - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Microbial electrochemical technologies provide sustainable wastewater treatment and
energy production. Despite significant improvements in the power output of microbial fuel …

Electroactive bacteria—molecular mechanisms and genetic tools

A Sydow, T Krieg, F Mayer, J Schrader… - Applied microbiology and …, 2014 - Springer
In nature, different bacteria have evolved strategies to transfer electrons far beyond the cell
surface. This electron transfer enables the use of these bacteria in bioelectrochemical …

[HTML][HTML] Bioelectrochemical systems and synthetic biology: more power, more products

SM Glaven - Microbial Biotechnology, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) are applications or processes that utilize the
electrochemical interaction of microbes and electrodes (Schroder et al., 2015). It has been …

Engineering extracellular electron transfer pathways of electroactive microorganisms by synthetic biology for energy and chemicals production

J Zhang, F Li, D Liu, Q Liu, H Song - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The excessive consumption of fossil fuels causes massive emission of CO2, leading to
climate deterioration and environmental pollution. The development of substitutes and …

Microbial catalyzed electrochemical systems: a bio-factory with multi-facet applications

SV Mohan, G Velvizhi, KV Krishna, ML Babu - Bioresource Technology, 2014 - Elsevier
Microbial catalyzed electrochemical systems (MCES) have been intensively pursued in both
basic and applied research as a futuristic and sustainable platform specifically in harnessing …

Biotechnological aspects of microbial extracellular electron transfer

S Kato - Microbes and environments, 2015 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is a type of microbial respiration that enables electron
transfer between microbial cells and extracellular solid materials, including naturally …

Microbial electrosynthesis—revisiting the electrical route for microbial production

K Rabaey, RA Rozendal - Nature reviews microbiology, 2010 - nature.com
Microbial electrocatalysis relies on microorganisms as catalysts for reactions occurring at
electrodes. Microbial fuel cells and microbial electrolysis cells are well known in this context; …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial electron transport and energy conservation–the foundation for optimizing bioelectrochemical systems

F Kracke, I Vassilev, JO Krömer - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Microbial electrochemical techniques describe a variety of emerging technologies that use
electrode–bacteria interactions for biotechnology applications including the production of …