An evolving view on biogeochemical cycling of iron

A Kappler, C Bryce, M Mansor, U Lueder… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biogeochemical cycling of iron is crucial to many environmental processes, such as ocean
productivity, carbon storage, greenhouse gas emissions and the fate of nutrients, toxic …

Microbial extracellular electron transfer and strategies for engineering electroactive microorganisms

J Zhao, F Li, Y Cao, X Zhang, T Chen, H Song… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electroactive microorganisms (EAMs) are ubiquitous in nature and have attracted
considerable attention as they can be used for energy recovery and environmental …

Extracellular electron transfer mechanisms between microorganisms and minerals

L Shi, H Dong, G Reguera, H Beyenal, A Lu… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Electrons can be transferred from microorganisms to multivalent metal ions that are
associated with minerals and vice versa. As the microbial cell envelope is neither physically …

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 …

Microbial electrocatalysis: redox mediators responsible for extracellular electron transfer

X Liu, L Shi, JD Gu - Biotechnology advances, 2018 - Elsevier
Redox mediator plays an important role in extracellular electron transfer (EET) in many
environments wherein microbial electrocatalysis occurs actively. Because of the block of cell …

Electrotrophy: other microbial species, iron, and electrodes as electron donors for microbial respirations

DR Lovley - Bioresource technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrotrophy, the growth of microbes on extracellular electron donors, drives important
biogeochemical cycles and has practical applications. Studies of Fe (II)-based electrotrophy …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular electron transfer-dependent anaerobic oxidation of ammonium by anammox bacteria

DR Shaw, M Ali, KP Katuri, JA Gralnick… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria contribute significantly to the global
nitrogen cycle and play a major role in sustainable wastewater treatment. Anammox bacteria …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial electro-fermentation for synthesis of chemicals and biofuels driven by bi-directional extracellular electron transfer

Z Gong, H Yu, J Zhang, F Li, H Song - Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Electroactive bacteria could perform bi-directional extracellular electron transfer (EET) to
exchange electrons and energy with extracellular environments, thus playing a central role …

Metagenomic analysis of rapid gravity sand filter microbial communities suggests novel physiology of Nitrospira spp.

A Palomo, S Jane Fowler, A Gülay… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Rapid gravity sand filtration is a drinking water production technology widely used around
the world. Microbially catalyzed processes dominate the oxidative transformation of …

Mechanisms of bacterial extracellular electron exchange

GF White, MJ Edwards, L Gomez-Perez… - Advances in microbial …, 2016 - Elsevier
The biochemical mechanisms by which microbes interact with extracellular soluble metal
ions and insoluble redox-active minerals have been the focus of intense research over the …