The biologically relevant coordination chemistry of iron and nitric oxide: electronic structure and reactivity

N Lehnert, E Kim, HT Dong, JB Harland… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule that is involved in a wide range of
physiological and pathological events in biology. Metal coordination chemistry, especially …

A review on the biosynthesis of metal and metal salt nanoparticles by microbes

G Gahlawat, AR Choudhury - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal nanoparticles have received great attention from researchers across the world
because of a plethora of applications in agriculture and the biomedical field as antioxidants …

Bio-optics and bio-inspired optical materials

S Tadepalli, JM Slocik, MK Gupta, RR Naik… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Through the use of the limited materials palette, optimally designed micro-and
nanostructures, and tightly regulated processes, nature demonstrates exquisite control of …

Pathway towards the commercialization of sustainable microbial fuel cell-based wastewater treatment technologies

M Kamali, Y Guo, TM Aminabhavi, R Abbassi… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have emerged and implemented as eco-friendly technologies
with the potential for simultaneous removal of contaminants from (waste) waters and …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane-anchored HDCR nanowires drive hydrogen-powered CO2 fixation

HM Dietrich, RD Righetto, A Kumar, W Wietrzynski… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Filamentous enzymes have been found in all domains of life, but the advantage of
filamentation is often elusive. Some anaerobic, autotrophic bacteria have an unusual …

Charge transport through molecular ensembles: Recent progress in molecular electronics

Y Liu, X Qiu, S Soni, RC Chiechi - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This review focuses on molecular ensemble junctions in which the individual molecules of a
monolayer each span two electrodes. This geometry favors quantum mechanical tunneling …

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 …

Design and fine-tuning redox potentials of metalloproteins involved in electron transfer in bioenergetics

P Hosseinzadeh, Y Lu - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 2016 - Elsevier
Redox potentials are a major contributor in controlling the electron transfer (ET) rates and
thus regulating the ET processes in the bioenergetics. To maximize the efficiency of the ET …

The methanogenic CO2 reducing-and-fixing enzyme is bifunctional and contains 46 [4Fe-4S] clusters

T Wagner, U Ermler, S Shima - Science, 2016 - science.org
Biological methane formation starts with a challenging adenosine triphosphate (ATP)–
independent carbon dioxide (CO2) fixation process. We explored this enzymatic process by …

Comparative genomic analysis of neutrophilic iron (II) oxidizer genomes for candidate genes in extracellular electron transfer

S He, RA Barco, D Emerson, EE Roden - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is recognized as a key biochemical process in
circumneutral pH Fe (II)-oxidizing bacteria (FeOB). In this study, we searched for candidate …