[HTML][HTML] Electron transfer beyond the outer membrane: putting electrons to rest

JA Gralnick, DR Bond - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is the physiological process that enables the reduction
or oxidation of molecules and minerals beyond the surface of a microbial cell. The first …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Widespread extracellular electron transfer pathways for charging microbial cytochrome OmcS nanowires via periplasmic cytochromes PpcABCDE

PC Portela, CC Shipps, C Shen, V Srikanth… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) via microbial nanowires drives globally-important
environmental processes and biotechnological applications for bioenergy, bioremediation …

Electroactive biofilms: how microbial electron transfer enables bioelectrochemical applications

EM Conners, K Rengasamy… - Journal of Industrial …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Microbial biofilms are ubiquitous. In marine and freshwater ecosystems, microbe–mineral
interactions sustain biogeochemical cycles, while biofilms found on plants and animals can …

2D layered structure-supported imidazole-based metal-organic framework for enhancing the power generation performance of microbial fuel cells

L Yang, Y Chen, Q Wen, H Xu, X Pan, X Li - Electrochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
By self-assembly of imidazole-based ZIF67 in the two-dimensional (2D) MXene layer, A bio-
compatible and bio-electrocatalytic anode combed of a metal organic framework (MOF) and …

Enhancing electrical outputs of the fuel cells with Geobacter sulferreducens by overexpressing nanowire proteins

Z Wang, Y Hu, Y Dong, L Shi… - Microbial Biotechnology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protein nanowires are critical electroactive components for electron transfer of Geobacter
sulfurreducens biofilm. To determine the applicability of the nanowire proteins in improving …

Cytochrome gene expression shifts in Geobacter sulfurreducens to maximize energy conservation in response to changes in redox conditions

E Howley, R Krajmalnik-Brown, CI Torres - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous studies have identified that Geobacter sulfurreducens has three different electron
transfer pathways for respiration, and it switches between these pathways to adapt to the …

Plugging into bacterial nanowires: a comparison of model electrogenic organisms

TA Clarke - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Shewanella extracellular reduction allows for rapid release of electrons.•
Extracellular electron transfer is faster than catabolic electron generation.•Geobacter …

A genetic engineering strategy to enhance outer membrane vesicle-mediated extracellular electron transfer of Geobacter sulfurreducens

Y Fang, G Yang, X Wu, C Lin, B Qin… - Biosensors and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) are unique devices that harness the metabolic activity of
electroactive microorganisms (EAMs) to convert chemical energy stored in organic …

The restricted mass transfer inside the anode pore channel affects the electroactive biofilms formation, community composition and the power production in microbial …

P Yang, Y Gao, N Wang, Y Zhu, L Xue, Y Han… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Porous anodes improve system performance in microbial electrochemical systems by
increasing the specific surface area for electroactive bacteria. In this study, multilayer …