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 …

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 …

Extracellular DNA promotes efficient extracellular electron transfer by pyocyanin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

SH Saunders, CM Edmund, MD Yates, FJ Otero… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Redox cycling of extracellular electron shuttles can enable the metabolic activity of
subpopulations within multicellular bacterial biofilms that lack direct access to electron …

Bio-electrochemical frameworks governing microbial fuel cell performance: technical bottlenecks and proposed solutions

RH Mahmoud, OM Gomaa, RYA Hassan - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are recognized as a future technology with a unique ability to
exploit metabolic activities of living microorganisms for simultaneous conversion of chemical …

Going the distance: long-range conductivity in protein and peptide bioelectronic materials

NL Ing, MY El-Naggar… - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Bioelectronic materials interface biomolecules, cells, organs, or organisms with electronic
devices, and they represent an active and growing field of materials research. Protein and …

Nanosecond heme-to-heme electron transfer rates in a multiheme cytochrome nanowire reported by a spectrally unique His/Met-ligated heme

JH van Wonderen, K Adamczyk, X Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Proteins achieve efficient energy storage and conversion through electron transfer along a
series of redox cofactors. Multiheme cytochromes are notable examples. These proteins …

Living electronics: A catalogue of engineered living electronic components

JT Atkinson, MS Chavez, CM Niman… - Microbial …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biology leverages a range of electrical phenomena to extract and store energy, control
molecular reactions and enable multicellular communication. Microbes, in particular, have …

Pathway for the production of hydroxyl radicals during the microbially mediated redox transformation of iron (oxyhydr) oxides

R Han, J Lv, Z Huang, S Zhang… - Environmental Science & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The reduction of ferric iron (Fe (III)) to ferrous iron (Fe (II)) by dissimilatory iron-reducing
bacteria is widespread in anaerobic environments. The oxidation of Fe (II) in aerobic …

Spin-dependent electron transport through bacterial cell surface multiheme electron conduits

S Mishra, S Pirbadian, AK Mondal… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Multiheme cytochromes, located on the bacterial cell surface, function as long-distance (> 10
nm) electron conduits linking intracellular reactions to external surfaces. This extracellular …

The study of riboflavin-mediated indirect electron transfer process in corrosion of EH40 steel induced by Methanococcus maripaludis

S Chen, R Hou, X Zhang, M Fu, X Cheng, W Dou… - Corrosion …, 2023 - Elsevier
The riboflavin-mediated indirect electron transfer process during EH40 steel corrosion was
investigated in Methanococcus maripaludis medium. The results showed that exogenous …