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 …

Controlling voltage reversal in microbial fuel cells

B Kim, SV Mohan, D Fapyane, IS Chang - Trends in biotechnology, 2020 - cell.com
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) systems have been developed for potential use as power sources,
along with several other applications, with bacteria as the prime factor enabling …

Modular engineering to increase intracellular NAD(H/+) promotes rate of extracellular electron transfer of Shewanella oneidensis

F Li, YX Li, YX Cao, L Wang, CG Liu, L Shi… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The slow rate of extracellular electron transfer (EET) of electroactive microorganisms
remains a primary bottleneck that restricts the practical applications of bioelectrochemical …

Weak electricigens: a new avenue for bioelectrochemical research

LE Doyle, E Marsili - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Electroactivity appears to be a phylogenetically diverse trait independent of cell wall
classification, with both Gram-negative and Gram-positive electricigens reported. While …

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 …

Role of multiheme cytochromes involved in extracellular anaerobic respiration in bacteria

MJ Edwards, DJ Richardson, CM Paquete… - Protein …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Heme containing proteins are involved in a broad range of cellular functions, from oxygen
sensing and transport to catalyzing oxidoreductive reactions. The two major types of …

Rediverting Electron Flux with an Engineered CRISPR-ddAsCpf1 System to Enhance the Pollutant Degradation Capacity of Shewanella oneidensis

J Li, Q Tang, Y Li, YY Fan, FH Li, JH Wu… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Pursuing efficient approaches to promote the extracellular electron transfer (EET) of
extracellular respiratory bacteria is essential to their application in environmental …

Direct evidence for heme-assisted solid-state electronic conduction in multi-heme c-type cytochromes

K Garg, M Ghosh, T Eliash, JH van Wonderen… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Multi-heme cytochrome c (Cytc) proteins are key for transferring electrons out of cells, to
enable intracellular oxidation to proceed in the absence of O2. In these proteins most of the …

Engineering cell-electrode interfacial electron transfer to boost power generation of electroactive biofilm

Q Liu, Q Ding, W Xu, Y Zhang, B Zhang, H Yu, C Li… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Electroactive biofilm plays a crucial rule in the electron transfer efficiency of bio-
electrochemical systems (BES). However, the slow rate of interfacial electron transfer (IET) …

Iron cycle tuned by outer-membrane cytochromes of dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria: interfacial dynamics and mechanisms in vitro

SS Yu, JJ Chen, RF Cheng, Y Min… - Environmental Science & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The biogeochemical cycle of iron is of great importance to living organisms on Earth, and
dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria (DMRB) with the capability of reducing hematite (α …