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 …

Surveying membrane landscapes: a new look at the bacterial cell surface

T Lithgow, CJ Stubenrauch, MPH Stumpf - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Recent studies applying advanced imaging techniques are changing the way we
understand bacterial cell surfaces, bringing new knowledge on everything from single-cell …

Extracellular cytochrome nanowires appear to be ubiquitous in prokaryotes

DP Baquero, V Cvirkaite-Krupovic, SS Hu, JL Fields… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Electrically conductive appendages from the anaerobic bacterium Geobacter
sulfurreducens, recently identified as extracellular cytochrome nanowires (ECNs), have …

Electron Transfer Beyond the Outer Membrane: Putting Electrons to Rest

JA Gralnick, DR Bond - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is the physiological process that enables the reduction
or oxidation of molecules and minerals beyond the surface of a microbial cell. The first …

[HTML][HTML] The varied roles of pilA-N, omcE, omcS, omcT, and omcZ in extracellular electron transfer by Geobacter sulfurreducens

J Jiang, P He, Y Luo, Z Peng, Y Jiang, Y Hu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Geobacter sulfurreducens mediates extracellular electron transfer (EET) reactions with
different substrates, such as solid-phase Fe (III)-containing minerals, anodes and the cells of …

Assessing Thermal Response of Redox Conduction for Anti-Arrhenius Kinetics in a Microbial Cytochrome Nanowire

MJ Guberman-Pfeffer - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
A micrometers-long helical homopolymer of the outer-membrane cytochrome type S (OmcS)
from Geobacter sulfurreducens is proposed to transport electrons to extracellular acceptors …

Lack of physiological evidence for cytochrome filaments functioning as conduits for extracellular electron transfer

IA Schwarz, B Alsaqri, Y Lekbach, K Henry, S Gorman… - Mbio, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Extracellular cytochrome filaments are proposed to serve as conduits for long-range
extracellular electron transfer. The primary functional physiological evidence has been the …

Long-Range Conductivity in Proteins Mediated by Aromatic Residues

S Krishnan, A Aksimentiev, S Lindsay… - … Physical Chemistry Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Single-molecule measurements show that many proteins, lacking any redox cofactors,
nonetheless exhibit electrical conductance on the order of a nanosiemen over 10 nm …

[HTML][HTML] To be or not to be a cytochrome: electrical characterizations are inconsistent with Geobacter cytochrome 'nanowires'

MJ Guberman-Pfeffer - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Geobacter sulfurreducens profoundly shapes Earth's biogeochemistry by discharging
respiratory electrons to minerals and other microbes through filaments of a two-decades …

Fe (III) oxide microparticles modulate extracellular electron transfer in anodic biofilms dominated by bacteria of the Pelobacter genus

T Philippon, FZ Ait-Itto, A Monfort, F Barrière… - Bioelectrochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Exo-electrogenic microorganisms have been extensively studied for their ability to transfer
electrons with solid surfaces using a large variety of metabolic pathways. Most of the studies …