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 …

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 …

Direct microbial electron uptake as a mechanism for stainless steel corrosion in aerobic environments

E Zhou, F Li, D Zhang, D Xu, Z Li, R Jia, Y Jin, H Song… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is an attractive model microbe for elucidating the biofilm-metal
interactions that contribute to the billions of dollars in corrosion damage to industrial …

Recent advances in enrichment, isolation, and bio-electrochemical activity evaluation of exoelectrogenic microorganisms

B Zhang, S Shi, R Tang, C Qiao, M Yang, Z You… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Exoelectrogenic microorganisms (EEMs) catalyzed the conversion of chemical energy to
electrical energy via extracellular electron transfer (EET) mechanisms, which underlay …

Challenges and applications of nitrate-reducing microbial biocathodes

J Rogińska, T Philippon, M Hoareau, FPA Jorand… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bioelectrochemical systems which employ microbes as electrode catalysts to convert
chemical energy into electrical energy (or conversely), have emerged in recent years for …

Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 accelerates the corrosion of carbon steel using multiple electron transfer mechanisms

A Hernández-Santana, JM Suflita, MA Nanny - International …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite increasing interest in corrosion caused by direct electron transfer (DET) from steel
surfaces to microbial cells, the validity of this mechanism is debated. This is often because of …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering artificial photosynthesis based on rhodopsin for CO2 fixation

W Tu, J Xu, IP Thompson, WE Huang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Microbial rhodopsin, a significant contributor to sustaining life through light harvesting, holds
untapped potential for carbon fixation. Here, we construct an artificial photosynthesis system …

[PDF][PDF] Microbial electrosynthetic nitrate reduction to ammonia by reversing the typical electron transfer pathway in Shewanella oneidensis

Y Li, S Qiao, M Guo, C Hou, J Wang, C Yu… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2023 - cell.com
Ammonia production is a critical industrial process, and mild routes to recycle nitrates in
wastewater could be a promising route to ammonia synthesis. In this study, ammonia …

NADH dehydrogenases drive inward electron transfer in Shewanella oneidensis MR‐1

NM Tefft, K Ford, MA TerAvest - Microbial Biotechnology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Shewanella oneidensis MR‐1 is a promising chassis organism for microbial
electrosynthesis because it has a well‐defined biochemical pathway (the Mtr pathway) that …

The electron transport chain of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 can operate bidirectionally to enable microbial electrosynthesis

KC Ford, MA TerAvest - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Extracellular electron transfer is a process by which bacterial cells can exchange electrons
with a redox-active material located outside of the cell. In Shewanella oneidensis, this …