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 …

Microbial nanowires: a new paradigm for biological electron transfer and bioelectronics

NS Malvankar, DR Lovley - ChemSusChem, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery that Geobacter sulfurreducens can produce protein filaments with metallic‐
like conductivity, known as microbial nanowires, that facilitate long‐range electron transport …

[PDF][PDF] Structure of microbial nanowires reveals stacked hemes that transport electrons over micrometers

F Wang, Y Gu, JP O'Brien, MY Sophia, SE Yalcin… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary Long-range (> 10 μm) transport of electrons along networks of Geobacter
sulfurreducens protein filaments, known as microbial nanowires, has been invoked to …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of the type IVa major pilin from the electrically conductive bacterial nanowires of Geobacter sulfurreducens

PN Reardon, KT Mueller - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2013 - ASBMB
Several species of δ proteobacteria are capable of reducing insoluble metal oxides as well
as other extracellular electron acceptors. These bacteria play a critical role in the cycling of …

Microbial nanowires: type IV pili or cytochrome filaments?

F Wang, L Craig, X Liu, C Rensing, EH Egelman - Trends in microbiology, 2023 - cell.com
A dynamic field of study has emerged involving long-range electron transport by
extracellular filaments in anaerobic bacteria, with Geobacter sulfurreducens being used as a …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Seeing is believing: novel imaging techniques help clarify microbial nanowire structure and function

DR Lovley, NS Malvankar - Environmental microbiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Novel imaging approaches have recently helped to clarify the properties of 'microbial
nanowires'. G eobacter sulfurreducens pili are actual wires. They possess metallic‐like …

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 …