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 …

Happy together: microbial communities that hook up to swap electrons

DR Lovley - The ISME journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The discovery of direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) and cable bacteria has
demonstrated that microbial cells can exchange electrons over long distances (μm–cm) …

Transient rapamycin treatment can increase lifespan and healthspan in middle-aged mice

A Bitto, TK Ito, VV Pineda, NJ LeTexier, HZ Huang… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
The FDA approved drug rapamycin increases lifespan in rodents and delays age-related
dysfunction in rodents and humans. Nevertheless, important questions remain regarding the …

Role of microbial community and plant species in performance of plant microbial fuel cells

I Rusyn - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Plant microbial fuel cells (PMFCs) are an innovative, promising and environmentally friendly
way of renewable bioelectricity generation. The method of PMFCs consists in electrode …

Current progress of interfacing organic semiconducting materials with bacteria

SR McCuskey, J Chatsirisupachai, E Zeglio… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microbial bioelectronics require interfacing microorganisms with electrodes. The resulting
abiotic/biotic platforms provide the basis of a range of technologies, including energy …

Microbial nanowires: an electrifying tale

S Sure, ML Ackland, AAJ Torriero… - …, 2016 - microbiologyresearch.org
Electromicrobiology has gained momentum in the last 10 years with advances in microbial
fuel cells and the discovery of microbial nanowires (MNWs). The list of MNW-producing …

Characterization of electrogenic gut bacteria

M Tahernia, E Plotkin-Kaye, M Mohammadifar… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
While electrogenic, or electricity-producing, Gram-negative bacteria predominantly found in
anaerobic habitats have been intensively explored, the potential of Gram-positive microbial …

Bacterial extracellular electron transfer occurs in mammalian gut

W Wang, Y Du, S Yang, X Du, M Li, B Lin… - Analytical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
As a well-studied biochemical reduction process in environmental microbiology,
extracellular electron transfer (EET) was recently discovered in bacteria closely related to …

Bacterial extracellular electron transfer in plant and animal ecosystems

E Stevens, ML Marco - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is a bioelectrochemical process performed by
electrochemically active bacteria (EAB) found in host-associated environments, including …

Stay connected: Electrical conductivity of microbial aggregates

C Li, KL Lesnik, H Liu - Biotechnology Advances, 2017 - Elsevier
The discovery of direct extracellular electron transfer offers an alternative to the traditional
understanding of diffusional electron exchange via small molecules. The establishment of …