Electromicrobiology: the ecophysiology of phylogenetically diverse electroactive microorganisms

DR Lovley, DE Holmes - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Electroactive microorganisms markedly affect many environments in which they establish
outer-surface electrical contacts with other cells and minerals or reduce soluble extracellular …

The soil pH and heavy metals revealed their impact on soil microbial community

M Naz, Z Dai, S Hussain, M Tariq, S Danish… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil microbial community is the main indicator having a crucial role in the remediation of
polluted soils. These microbes can alter soil pH, organic matter in soils (SOM), soil physic …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy metals in soils and the remediation potential of bacteria associated with the plant microbiome

S Gonzalez Henao, T Ghneim-Herrera - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
High concentrations of non-essential heavy metals/metalloids (arsenic, cadmium, and lead)
in soils and irrigation water represent a threat to the environment, food safety, and human …

[HTML][HTML] FeGenie: a comprehensive tool for the identification of iron genes and iron gene neighborhoods in genome and metagenome assemblies

AI Garber, KH Nealson, A Okamoto… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Iron is a micronutrient for nearly all life on Earth. It can be used as an electron donor and
electron acceptor by iron-oxidizing and iron-reducing microorganisms and is used in a …

Microbially driven Fe-N cycle: Intrinsic mechanisms, enhancement, and perspectives

Y Liu, L Xu, J Su, A Ali, T Huang, Y Wang… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The iron‑nitrogen (Fesingle bondN) cycle driven by microbes has great potential for treating
wastewater. Fe is a metal that is frequently present in the environment and one of the crucial …

[HTML][HTML] Anammox biochemistry: a tale of heme c proteins

B Kartal, JT Keltjens - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2016 - cell.com
Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria are one of the latest scientific
discoveries in the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. These microorganisms are able to oxidize …

[HTML][HTML] The crystal structure of a biological insulated transmembrane molecular wire

MJ Edwards, GF White, JN Butt, DJ Richardson… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
A growing number of bacteria are recognized to conduct electrons across their cell
envelope, and yet molecular details of the mechanisms supporting this process remain …

[HTML][HTML] Let's chat: Communication between electroactive microorganisms

CM Paquete, MA Rosenbaum, L Bañeras… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electroactive microorganisms can exchange electrons with other cells or conductive
interfaces in their extracellular environment. This property opens the way to a broad range of …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …