[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms of microbial extracellular electron transfer: the importance of multiheme cytochromes

CM Paquete, L Morgado, CA Salgueiro… - Frontiers in Bioscience …, 2022 - imrpress.com
Extracellular electron transfer is a key metabolic process of many organisms that enables
them to exchange electrons with extracellular electron donors/acceptors. The discovery of …

[HTML][HTML] Nature's nitrite-to-ammonia expressway, with no stop at dinitrogen

PMH Kroneck - JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2022 - Springer
Since the characterization of cytochrome c 552 as a multiheme nitrite reductase, research on
this enzyme has gained major interest. Today, it is known as pentaheme cytochrome c nitrite …

Modifying Cytochrome c Maturation Can Increase the Bioelectronic Performance of Engineered Escherichia coli

L Su, T Fukushima, A Prior, M Baruch… - ACS Synthetic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Genetic circuits that encode extracellular electron transfer (EET) pathways allow the
intracellular state of Escherichia coli to be electronically monitored and controlled. However …

Ex-situ electrochemical characterisation of fixed-bed denitrification biocathodes: A promising strategy to improve bioelectrochemical denitrification

A Ceballos-Escalera, N Pous, B Korth, F Harnisch… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
The worldwide issue of nitrate-contaminated groundwater requires practical solutions, and
electro-bioremediation offers a promising and sustainable treatment. While it has shown …

A new paradigm of multiheme cytochrome evolution by grafting and pruning protein modules

R Soares, NL Costa, CM Paquete… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Multiheme cytochromes play key roles in diverse biogeochemical cycles, but understanding
the origin and evolution of these proteins is a challenge due to their ancient origin and …

[HTML][HTML] Crossing the Wall: Characterization of the Multiheme Cytochromes Involved in the Extracellular Electron Transfer Pathway of Thermincola ferriacetica

MM Faustino, BM Fonseca, NL Costa, D Lousa… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Bioelectrochemical systems (BES) are emerging as a suite of versatile sustainable
technologies to produce electricity and added-value compounds from renewable and …

The steady march toward biomimetic nanoelectronics

KM Rosso, P Zarzycki - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Steady progress is being made in unveiling nature's long-range charge transport
mechanisms in redox proteins and in the development of versatile self-assembling scaffolds …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of the Molecular Mechanisms of the Eukaryotic Cytochrome-c Maturation System

AV Silva, MO Firmino, NL Costa, RO Louro… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cytochromes-c are ubiquitous heme proteins with enormous impact at the cellular level,
being key players in metabolic processes such as electron transfer chains and apoptosis …

2, 6-Di-tert-butyl-p-benzoquinone enhances biofilm redox activity and extracellular electron transfer

H Zhang, Y Guo, M Yu, H Wen - Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Effects of electron shuttle (ES) concentration on biofilm formation and redox activity
and the molecular mechanism of inducing biofilm formation remain underexplored. Here, we …

[PDF][PDF] Structural and functional insights of GSU0105, a unique multiheme cytochrome from G. sulfurreducens

TM Fernandes, F Folgosa, M Teixeira, CA Salgueiro… - Biophysical …, 2021 - cell.com
Geobacter sulfurreducens possesses over 100 cytochromes that assure an effective electron
transfer to the cell exterior. The most abundant group of cytochromes in this microorganism …