Long range electron transfer and proton transfer in biology: What do we know and how does it work?

N Amdursky - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Electron transfer (ET) and proton transfer (PT) events are involved in most of the biochemical
processes in biology, such as within the aerobic respiration system and photosynthesis …

[HTML][HTML] The organo-metal-like nature of long-range conduction in cable bacteria

D Pankratov, SH Martinez, C Karman, A Gerzhik… - …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cable bacteria are filamentous, multicellular microorganisms that display an exceptional
form of biological electron transport across centimeter-scale distances. Currents are guided …

Probing peptide nanowire conductivity by THz nanoscopy

A Solemanifar, X Guo, BC Donose, K Bertling… - …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Significant efforts have recently been invested in assessing the physical and chemical
properties of microbial nanowires for their promising role in developing alternative …

Expression of filaments of the Geobacter extracellular cytochrome OmcS in Shewanella oneidensis

T Lin, W Ding, D Zhang, Z You, Y Yang… - Biotechnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The physiological role of Geobacter sulfurreducens extracellular cytochrome filaments is a
matter of debate and the development of proposed electronic device applications of …

Molecular crowding induced loss of native conformation and aggregation of α-chymotrypsinogen A

MT Alam, A Ali, M Furkan, A Naeem - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2022 - Elsevier
Conformational characterization of the folding and unfolding pathway is the key to studying
protein-macromolecular interactions. Also, we know that unfolding mediated protein …

Cytochrome expression shifts in Geobacter sulfurreducens to maximize energy conservation in response to changes in redox conditions

E Howley, R Krajmalnik-Brown, CI Torres - BiorXiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Previous studies have identified that Geobacter sulfurreducens has three different electron
transfer pathways for respiration, and it switches between these pathways to adapt to the …

Building structured, functional materials inspired by nature: Using peptides, peptoids, and polymerizations

BJ Montz, T Emrick - Journal of Polymer Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The assembly of peptide and peptide‐inspired building blocks into functional, well‐defined,
multi‐length scale materials represents an exciting, rapidly expanding research field that …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of support materials on the electroactive behavior, structure and gene expression of wild type and GSU1771-deficient mutant of Geobacter …

LM Rodríguez-Torres, GA Huerta-Miranda… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Geobacter sulfurreducens DL1 is a metal-reducing dissimilatory bacterium frequently used
to produce electricity in bioelectrochemical systems (BES). The biofilm formed on electrodes …

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 …

Solvent-induced assembly of microbial protein nanowires into superstructured bundles

YL Sun, BJ Montz, R Selhorst, HY Tang, J Zhu… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein-based electronic biomaterials represent an attractive alternative to traditional
metallic and semiconductor materials due to their environmentally benign production and …