Cytochromes in Extracellular Electron Transfer in Geobacter

T Ueki - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is an important biological process in microbial
physiology as found in dissimilatory metal oxidation/reduction and interspecies electron …

Direct Observation of Electrically Conductive Pili Emanating from Geobacter sulfurreducens

X Liu, DJF Walker, SS Nonnenmann, D Sun, DR Lovley - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Geobacter sulfurreducens is a model microbe for elucidating the mechanisms for
extracellular electron transfer in several biogeochemical cycles, bioelectrochemical …

Diving into the redox properties of Geobacter sulfurreducens cytochromes: a model for extracellular electron transfer

TC Santos, MA Silva, L Morgado, JM Dantas… - Dalton …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Geobacter bacteria have a remarkable respiratory versatility that includes the dissimilatory
reduction of insoluble metal oxides in natural habitats and electron transfer to electrode …

A severe reduction in the cytochrome C content of Geobacter sulfurreducens eliminates its capacity for extracellular electron transfer

M Estevez‐Canales, A Kuzume, Z Borjas… - Environmental …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of G eobacter species to transfer electrons outside the cell enables them to play
an important role in a number of biogeochemical and bioenergy processes. Gene deletion …

Expressing the Geobacter metallireducens PilA in Geobacter sulfurreducens Yields Pili with Exceptional Conductivity

Y Tan, RY Adhikari, NS Malvankar, JE Ward… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The electrically conductive pili (e-pili) of Geobacter sulfurreducens serve as a model for a
novel strategy for long-range extracellular electron transfer. e-pili are also a new class of …

Iron-oxide minerals affect extracellular electron-transfer paths of Geobacter spp.

S Kato, K Hashimoto, K Watanabe - Microbes and environments, 2013 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Some bacteria utilize (semi) conductive iron-oxide minerals as conduits for extracellular
electron transfer (EET) to distant, insoluble electron acceptors. A previous study …

Disparity of Cytochrome Utilization in Anodic and Cathodic Extracellular Electron Transfer Pathways of Geobacter sulfurreducens Biofilms

N Heidary, N Kornienko, S Kalathil… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) in microorganisms is prevalent in nature and has been
utilized in functional bioelectrochemical systems. EET of Geobacter sulfurreducens has …

Aromatic amino acids required for pili conductivity and long-range extracellular electron transport in Geobacter sulfurreducens

M Vargas, NS Malvankar, PL Tremblay, C Leang… - MBio, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
It has been proposed that Geobacter sulfurreducens requires conductive pili for long-range
electron transport to Fe (III) oxides and for high-density current production in microbial fuel …

The roles of outer membrane cytochromes of Shewanella and Geobacter in extracellular electron transfer

L Shi, DJ Richardson, Z Wang… - Environmental …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
As key components of the electron transfer (ET) pathways used for dissimilatory reduction of
solid iron [Fe (III)](hydr) oxides, outer membrane multihaem c‐type cytochromes MtrC and …

The electrically conductive pili of Geobacter species are a recently evolved feature for extracellular electron transfer

DE Holmes, Y Dang, DJF Walker… - Microbial …, 2016 - microbiologyresearch.org
The electrically conductive pili (e-pili) of Geobactersulfurreducens have environmental and
practical significance because they can facilitate electron transfer to insoluble Fe (III) oxides; …