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 …

Syntrophy goes electric: direct interspecies electron transfer

DR Lovley - Annual review of microbiology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) has biogeochemical significance, and practical
applications that rely on DIET or DIET-based aspects of microbial physiology are growing …

[HTML][HTML] Geobacter protein nanowires

DR Lovley, DJF Walker - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The study of electrically conductive protein nanowires in Geobacter sulfurreducens has led
to new concepts for long-range extracellular electron transport, as well as for the …

Recognizing the challenges of anaerobic digestion: Critical steps toward improving biogas generation

M Rasapoor, B Young, R Brar, A Sarmah, WQ Zhuang… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is one of the most promising technologies that can break the
complex organic substrate into biogas. However, biogas production from biomass waste and …

Role and potential of direct interspecies electron transfer in anaerobic digestion

G Baek, J Kim, J Kim, C Lee - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an effective biological treatment for stabilizing organic
compounds in waste/wastewater and in simultaneously producing biogas. However, it is …

Happy together: microbial communities that hook up to swap electrons

DR Lovley - The ISME journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The discovery of direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) and cable bacteria has
demonstrated that microbial cells can exchange electrons over long distances (μm–cm) …

Metatranscriptomic evidence for direct interspecies electron transfer between Geobacter and Methanothrix species in methanogenic rice paddy soils

DE Holmes, PM Shrestha, DJF Walker… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The possibility that Methanothrix (formerly Methanosaeta) and Geobacter species cooperate
via direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) in terrestrial methanogenic environments was …

Cryo-EM reveals the structural basis of long-range electron transport in a cytochrome-based bacterial nanowire

DJ Filman, SF Marino, JE Ward, L Yang… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Electrically conductive pili from Geobacter species, termed bacterial nanowires, are
intensely studied for their biological significance and potential in the development of new …

Role of redox-active biochar with distinctive electrochemical properties to promote methane production in anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge

Y Shen, Y Yu, Y Zhang, M Urgun-Demirtas… - Journal of cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biochar has been reported as an effective additive to improve methane production during
anaerobic digestion (AD). However, the mechanism for such a stimulatory impact remains …

The chemodiversity of paddy soil dissolved organic matter correlates with microbial community at continental scales

HY Li, H Wang, HT Wang, PY Xin, XH Xu, Y Ma, WP Liu… - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background Paddy soil dissolved organic matter (DOM) represents a major hotspot for soil
biogeochemistry, yet we know little about its chemodiversity let alone the microbial …