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 …

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 …

Extracellular cytochrome nanowires appear to be ubiquitous in prokaryotes

DP Baquero, V Cvirkaite-Krupovic, SS Hu, JL Fields… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Electrically conductive appendages from the anaerobic bacterium Geobacter
sulfurreducens, recently identified as extracellular cytochrome nanowires (ECNs), have …

Redox mediators in microbial electrochemical systems

A Gemünde, B Lai, L Pause, J Krömer… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Redox mediators are commonly used in microbial electrochemical systems to enable or
enhance the electron transfer between microorganisms and electrodes. In recent studies …

Molecular mechanisms of microbial transmembrane electron transfer of electrochemically active bacteria

X Xiao, HQ Yu - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Electrochemically active bacteria (EAB) can release electrons generated by anaerobic
respiration to various electron acceptors in various bioelectrochemical systems via …

Bacterial extracellular electron transfer in plant and animal ecosystems

E Stevens, ML Marco - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is a bioelectrochemical process performed by
electrochemically active bacteria (EAB) found in host-associated environments, including …

[HTML][HTML] The first cultivated representatives of the actinobacterial lineage OPB41 isolated from subsurface environments constitute a novel order Anaerosomatales

MA Khomyakova, DG Zavarzina, AY Merkel… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The continental subsurface harbors microbial populations highly enriched in uncultured
taxa. OPB41 is an uncultured order-level phylogenetic lineage within the actinobacterial …

Rediverting Electron Flux with an Engineered CRISPR-ddAsCpf1 System to Enhance the Pollutant Degradation Capacity of Shewanella oneidensis

J Li, Q Tang, Y Li, YY Fan, FH Li, JH Wu… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Pursuing efficient approaches to promote the extracellular electron transfer (EET) of
extracellular respiratory bacteria is essential to their application in environmental …

Role of multiheme cytochromes involved in extracellular anaerobic respiration in bacteria

MJ Edwards, DJ Richardson, CM Paquete… - Protein …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Heme containing proteins are involved in a broad range of cellular functions, from oxygen
sensing and transport to catalyzing oxidoreductive reactions. The two major types of …

[HTML][HTML] Electroactivity across the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria

CM Paquete - Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
The growing interest on sustainable biotechnological processes for the production of energy
and industrial relevant organic compounds have increased the discovery of electroactive …