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 …

Engineering wired life: synthetic biology for electroactive bacteria

LJ Bird, BB Kundu, T Tschirhart, AD Corts… - ACS Synthetic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electroactive bacteria produce or consume electrical current by moving electrons to and
from extracellular acceptors and donors. This specialized process, known as extracellular …

[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] Cultivating electroactive microbes—from field to bench

MO Yee, J Deutzmann, A Spormann… - Nanotechnology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Electromicrobiology is an emerging field investigating and exploiting the interaction of
microorganisms with insoluble electron donors or acceptors. Some of the most recently …

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 …

Recent advances in microbial fuel cells: A review on the identification technology, molecular tool and improvement strategy of electricigens

J Luo, W Tian, H Jin, J Yang, J Li, Y Wang… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are bio-electrochemical devices that convert the chemical energy
of biomass into electrical energy utilizing microorganisms as biocatalysts, thereby capturing …

Organic microbial electrochemical transistor monitoring extracellular electron transfer

G Méhes, A Roy, X Strakosas, M Berggren… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) denotes the process of microbial respiration with
electron transfer to extracellular acceptors and has been exploited in a range of microbial …

Capturing the signal of weak electricigens: a worthy endeavour

K Aiyer, LE Doyle - Trends in Biotechnology, 2022 - cell.com
Recently several non-traditional electroactive microorganisms have been discovered. These
can be considered weak electricigens; microorganisms that typically rely on soluble electron …

Oral microbiota accelerates corrosion of 316L stainless steel for orthodontic applications

Q Wang, M Zhang, C Yang, Y Yang, E Zhou… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) of 316L stainless steel (SS) caused
by oral microbiota was investigated with HOMINGS 16S rRNA gene sequencing technology …

[HTML][HTML] Quinones: more than electron shuttles

T Franza, P Gaudu - Research in Microbiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Bacterial quinones are lipophilic redox compounds involved in important cellular roles such
as electron transport in respiratory and photosynthetic chains. However, a growing body of …