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 …

Structure of Geobacter pili reveals secretory rather than nanowire behaviour

Y Gu, V Srikanth, AI Salazar-Morales, R Jain… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Extracellular electron transfer by Geobacter species through surface appendages known as
microbial nanowires is important in a range of globally important environmental phenomena …

[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 …

Exoelectrogens: recent advances in molecular drivers involved in extracellular electron transfer and strategies used to improve it for microbial fuel cell applications

R Kumar, L Singh, AW Zularisam - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
The use of exoelectrogens in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) has given a wide berth to the
addition of artificial electron shuttles/conduits as they have the molecular machinery to …

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 …

Microbial nanowires for bioenergy applications

NS Malvankar, DR Lovley - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Metal-like conductivity of nanowires is a novel concept in bio-electron
transport.•Microbial nanowires play a role in multiple forms of extracellular 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 …

Syntrophus conductive pili demonstrate that common hydrogen-donating syntrophs can have a direct electron transfer option

DJF Walker, KP Nevin, DE Holmes, AE Rotaru… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Syntrophic interspecies electron exchange is essential for the stable functioning of diverse
anaerobic microbial communities. Hydrogen/formate interspecies electron transfer (HFIT), in …

Electrically conductive pili from pilin genes of phylogenetically diverse microorganisms

DJF Walker, RY Adhikari, DE Holmes, JE Ward… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The possibility that bacteria other than Geobacter species might contain genes for
electrically conductive pili (e-pili) was investigated by heterologously expressing pilin genes …