Living electronics: A catalogue of engineered living electronic components

JT Atkinson, MS Chavez, CM Niman… - Microbial …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biology leverages a range of electrical phenomena to extract and store energy, control
molecular reactions and enable multicellular communication. Microbes, in particular, have …

Single-molecular protein-based bioelectronics via electronic transport: fundamentals, devices and applications

T Jiang, BF Zeng, B Zhang, L Tang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomolecular electronics is a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field that combines biology,
nanoscience, and engineering to bridge the two important fields of life sciences and …

Electric field stimulates production of highly conductive microbial OmcZ nanowires

SE Yalcin, JP O'Brien, Y Gu, K Reiss, SM Yi… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Multifunctional living materials are attractive due to their powerful ability to self-repair and
replicate. However, most natural materials lack electronic functionality. Here we show that …

Protein nanowires with tunable functionality and programmable self-assembly using sequence-controlled synthesis

DM Shapiro, G Mandava, SE Yalcin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Advances in synthetic biology permit the genetic encoding of synthetic chemistries at
monomeric precision, enabling the synthesis of programmable proteins with tunable …

Catalytic cycle of formate dehydrogenase captured by single-molecule conductance

A Zhang, X Zhuang, J Liu, J Huang, L Lin, Y Tang… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the mechanisms and kinetics of enzymatic reactions is essential for studies
of life science and for bioengineering. Here the different reaction states in the catalytic cycle …

Molecular electronics sensors on a scalable semiconductor chip: A platform for single-molecule measurement of binding kinetics and enzyme activity

CW Fuller, PS Padayatti… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
For nearly 50 years, the vision of using single molecules in circuits has been seen as
providing the ultimate miniaturization of electronic chips. An advanced example of such a …

Intrinsic electronic conductivity of individual atomically resolved amyloid crystals reveals micrometer-long hole hopping via tyrosines

C Shipps, HR Kelly, PJ Dahl, SM Yi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Proteins are commonly known to transfer electrons over distances limited to a few
nanometers. However, many biological processes require electron transport over far longer …

Electronic transport in molecular wires of precisely controlled length built from modular proteins

B Zhang, E Ryan, X Wang, W Song, S Lindsay - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
DNA molecular wires have been studied extensively because of the ease with which
molecules of controlled length and composition can be synthesized. The same has not been …

Charge transport at the protein–electrode interface in the emerging field of BioMolecular Electronics

TQ Ha, IJ Planje, JRG White, AC Aragonès… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The emerging field of BioMolecular Electronics aims to unveil the charge transport
characteristics of biomolecules with two primary outcomes envisioned. The first is to use …

Measuring conductance switching in single proteins using quantum tunneling

L Tang, L Yi, T Jiang, R Ren… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Interpreting the electrical signatures of single proteins in electronic junctions has facilitated a
better understanding of the intrinsic properties of proteins that are fundamental to chemical …