Long-distance electron transport in multicellular freshwater cable bacteria [PDF]
eLife, 2023 Filamentous multicellular cable bacteria perform centimeter-scale electron transport in a process that couples oxidation of an electron donor (sulfide) in deeper sediment to the reduction of an electron acceptor (oxygen or nitrate) near the surface ...
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Cable bacteria with electric connection to oxygen attract flocks of diverse bacteria [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Cable bacteria are centimeter-long filamentous microbes that conduct electrons via internal wires, thus coupling sulfide oxidation between sediment layers. Here, Bjerg et al. show that the anoxic part of oxygen-respiring cable bacteria attracts swarms of
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Electrogenic sulfur oxidation mediated by cable bacteria and its ecological effects [PDF]
Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 2023 At the sediment-water interfaces, filamentous cable bacteria transport electrons from sulfide oxidation along their filaments towards oxygen or nitrate as electron acceptors. These multicellular bacteria belonging to the family Desulfobulbaceae thus form
Zhenyu Wang +7 more
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On the diversity, phylogeny and biogeography of cable bacteria [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyCable bacteria have acquired a unique metabolism, which induces long-distance electron transport along their centimeter-long multicellular filaments. At present, cable bacteria are thought to form a monophyletic clade with two described genera.
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Persistent flocks of diverse motile bacteria in long-term incubations of electron-conducting cable bacteria, Candidatus Electronema aureum [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Cable bacteria are centimeters-long filamentous bacteria that oxidize sulfide in anoxic sediment layers and reduce oxygen at the oxic-anoxic interface, connecting these reactions via electron transport.
Jamie J. M. Lustermans +7 more
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Comparative genomic analysis of nickel homeostasis in cable bacteria [PDF]
BMC GenomicsBackground Cable bacteria are filamentous members of the Desulfobulbaceae family that are capable of performing centimetre‑scale electron transport in marine and freshwater sediments.
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Quantification of Cable Bacteria in Marine Sediments via qPCR [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Cable bacteria (Deltaproteobacteria, Desulfobulbaceae) are long filamentous sulfur-oxidizing bacteria that generate long-distance electric currents running through the bacterial filaments. This way, they couple the oxidation of sulfide in deeper sediment
Jeanine S. Geelhoed +3 more
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Extracellular electron transfer genes expressed by candidate flocking bacteria in cable bacteria sediment [PDF]
mSystemsCable bacteria, filamentous sulfide oxidizers that live in sulfidic sediments, are at times associated with large flocks of swimming bacteria. It has been proposed that these flocks of bacteria transport electrons extracellularly to cable bacteria via an
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Polyphosphate Dynamics in Cable Bacteria [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Cable bacteria are multicellular sulfide oxidizing bacteria that display a unique metabolism based on long-distance electron transport. Cells in deeper sediment layers perform the sulfide oxidizing half-reaction whereas cells in the surface layers of the
Nicole M. J. Geerlings +9 more
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A novel cable bacteria species with a distinct morphology and genomic potential [PDF]
Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyCable bacteria form a group of multicellular prokaryotes that enable electron transfer over centimeter-scale distances within marine and freshwater sediments. To this end, the periplasm of these filamentous bacteria contains specialized conductive fibers,
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