Engineering wired life: synthetic biology for electroactive bacteria

LJ Bird, BB Kundu, T Tschirhart, AD Corts… - ACS Synthetic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electroactive bacteria produce or consume electrical current by moving electrons to and
from extracellular acceptors and donors. This specialized process, known as extracellular …

Microbial electrolysis cells for the production of biohydrogen in dark fermentation–a review

HS Lee, W Xin, R Katakojwala, SV Mohan… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
To assess biohydrogen for future green energy, this review revisited dark fermentation and
microbial electrolysis cells (MECs). Hydrogen evolution rate in mesophilic dark fermentation …

Microbial nanowires: type IV pili or cytochrome filaments?

F Wang, L Craig, X Liu, C Rensing, EH Egelman - Trends in microbiology, 2023 - cell.com
A dynamic field of study has emerged involving long-range electron transport by
extracellular filaments in anaerobic bacteria, with Geobacter sulfurreducens being used as a …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial biofilms as living photoconductors due to ultrafast electron transfer in cytochrome OmcS nanowires

J Neu, CC Shipps, MJ Guberman-Pfeffer… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Light-induced microbial electron transfer has potential for efficient production of value-added
chemicals, biofuels and biodegradable materials owing to diversified metabolic pathways …

A 300-fold conductivity increase in microbial cytochrome nanowires due to temperature-induced restructuring of hydrogen bonding networks

PJ Dahl, SM Yi, Y Gu, A Acharya, C Shipps, J Neu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Although proteins are considered as nonconductors that transfer electrons only up to 1 to 2
nanometers via tunneling, Geobacter sulfurreducens transports respiratory electrons over …

Cytochromes in Extracellular Electron Transfer in Geobacter

T Ueki - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is an important biological process in microbial
physiology as found in dissimilatory metal oxidation/reduction and interspecies electron …

[HTML][HTML] Protein nanowires with tunable functionality and programmable self-assembly using sequence-controlled synthesis

DM Shapiro, G Mandava, SE Yalcin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Advances in synthetic biology permit the genetic encoding of synthetic chemistries at
monomeric precision, enabling the synthesis of programmable proteins with tunable …

Two key Geobacter species of wastewater-enriched electroactive biofilm respond differently to electric field

L Tian, X Yan, D Wang, Q Du, Y Wan, L Zhou, T Li… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Electroactive biofilms have attracted increasing attention due to their unique ability to
exchange electrons with electrodes. Geobacter spp. are widely found to be dominant in …

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 …

Extracellular electron transfer and the conductivity in microbial aggregates during biochemical wastewater treatment: A bottom-up analysis of existing knowledge

Y Gu, X Qi, X Yang, Y Jiang, P Liu, X Quan, P Liang - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial extracellular electron transfer (EET) plays a crucial role in bioenergy production
and resource recovery from wastewater. Interdisciplinary efforts have been made to unveil …