Physiological Benefits of Oxygen-Terminating Extracellular Electron Transfer [PDF]
mBio, 2022 Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is a process via which certain microorganisms, such as bacteria, exchange electrons with extracellular materials by creating an electrical link across their membranes.
Yoshihide Tokunou +2 more
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Extracellular polymeric substances are transient media for microbial extracellular electron transfer [PDF]
Science Advances, 2017 Extracellular polymeric substances play important roles in microbial extracellular electron transfer processes.
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Mechanisms of extracellular electron transfer in anaerobic methanotrophic archaea [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) archaea are environmentally important, uncultivated microorganisms that oxidize the potent greenhouse gas methane. During methane oxidation, ANME archaea engage in extracellular electron transfer (EET) with other microbes,
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Putative Extracellular Electron Transfer in Methanogenic Archaea [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 It has been suggested that a few methanogens are capable of extracellular electron transfers. For instance, Methanosarcina barkeri can directly capture electrons from the coexisting microbial cells of other species.
Kailin Gao, Yahai Lu
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Conductive proteins‐based extracellular electron transfer of electroactive microorganisms [PDF]
Quantitative Biology, 2023 Electroactive microorganisms (EAMs) could utilize extracellular electron transfer (EET) pathways to exchange electrons and energy with their external surroundings.
Junqi Zhang +7 more
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Non‐Respiratory Extracellular Electron Transfer Competes with Nitrogenase for Electrons in Rhodopseudomonas Palustris [PDF]
Advanced ScienceBiological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is a pivotal process that reduces nitrogen to ammonium within the nitrogen cycle. Extracellular electron transfer (EET) between diazotrophs and the extracellular environment influences the occurrence and efficiency of ...
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Conjugative plasmids inhibit extracellular electron transfer in Geobacter sulfurreducens [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Geobacter sulfurreducens is part of a specialized group of microbes with the unique ability to exchange electrons with insoluble materials, such as iron oxides and electrodes. Therefore, G.
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Cysteine-Mediated Extracellular Electron Transfer of Lysinibacillus varians GY32 [PDF]
Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 Microbial extracellular electron transfer (EET) is essential in many natural and engineering processes. Compared with the versatile EET pathways of Gram-negative bacteria, the EET of Gram-positive bacteria has been studied much less and is mainly limited
Guannan Kong +9 more
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Co-occurrence of direct and indirect extracellular electron transfer mechanisms during electroactive respiration in a dissimilatory sulfate reducing bacterium [PDF]
Microbiology SpectrumUnderstanding the extracellular electron transfer mechanisms of electroactive bacteria could help determine their potential in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and their microbial syntrophy with redox-active minerals in natural environments.
Liyuan Hou +4 more
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Extracellular Electron Transfer Mechanism in Shewanella loihica PV- 4 Biofilms Formed at Indium Tin Oxide and Graphite Electrodes. [PDF]
International Journal of Electrochemical Science, 2013 Electroactive biofilms are capable of extracellular electron transfer to insoluble metal oxides and electrodes; such biofilms are relevant to biogeochemistry, bioremediation, and bioelectricity production.
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