Electromicrobiology: the ecophysiology of phylogenetically diverse electroactive microorganisms

DR Lovley, DE Holmes - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Electroactive microorganisms markedly affect many environments in which they establish
outer-surface electrical contacts with other cells and minerals or reduce soluble extracellular …

Direct interspecies electron transfer via conductive materials: a perspective for anaerobic digestion applications

JH Park, HJ Kang, KH Park, HD Park - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a microbial process that produces renewable energy in the form
of methane by treating organic waste and high-strength wastewater. Recent studies have …

Structure of Geobacter cytochrome OmcZ identifies mechanism of nanowire assembly and conductivity

Y Gu, MJ Guberman-Pfeffer, V Srikanth, C Shen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
OmcZ nanowires produced by Geobacter species have high electron conductivity (> 30 S
cm− 1). Of 111 cytochromes present in G. sulfurreducens, OmcZ is the only known nanowire …

Cryo-EM structure of an extracellular Geobacter OmcE cytochrome filament reveals tetrahaem packing

F Wang, K Mustafa, V Suciu, K Joshi, CH Chan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrically conductive appendages from the anaerobic bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens
were first observed two decades ago, with genetic and biochemical data suggesting that …

Nitrogen recovery through fermentative dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA): carbon source comparison and metabolic pathway

Y Zhao, Q Li, Q Cui, SQ Ni - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
The dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) process was known as a short
circuit in nitrogen cycle, a key step in recovering nitrogen from nitrate wastewater, and has …

Stainless steel corrosion via direct iron-to-microbe electron transfer by Geobacter species

HY Tang, C Yang, T Ueki, CC Pittman, D Xu… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Microbial corrosion of iron-based materials is a substantial economic problem. A
mechanistic understanding is required to develop mitigation strategies, but previous …

[HTML][HTML] Single cell electron collectors for highly efficient wiring-up electronic abiotic/biotic interfaces

YY Yu, YZ Wang, Z Fang, YT Shi, QW Cheng… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
By electronically wiring-up living cells with abiotic conductive surfaces, bioelectrochemical
systems (BES) harvest energy and synthesize electric-/solar-chemicals with unmatched …

[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 …

Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups

MV Langwig, V De Anda, N Dombrowski… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Deltaproteobacteria, now proposed to be the phyla Desulfobacterota, Myxococcota, and
SAR324, are ubiquitous in marine environments and play essential roles in global carbon …

The interplay of microbially mediated and abiotic reactions in the biogeochemical Fe cycle

ED Melton, ED Swanner, S Behrens… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Many iron (Fe) redox processes that were previously assumed to be purely abiotic, such as
photochemical Fe reactions, are now known to also be microbially mediated. Owing to this …