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 …

The fate of dietary polysaccharides in the digestive tract

Q Yang, S Chang, X Zhang, F Luo, W Li… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Dietary polysaccharides are widely used as functional foods owing to their
diverse bioactivities, which are mainly determined by the degradation, absorption, and …

Cytochromes in Extracellular Electron Transfer in Geobacter

T Ueki - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Extracellular electron transfer (EET) is an important biological process in microbial
physiology as found in dissimilatory metal oxidation/reduction and interspecies electron …

[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 …

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 …

Assessing Thermal Response of Redox Conduction for Anti-Arrhenius Kinetics in a Microbial Cytochrome Nanowire

MJ Guberman-Pfeffer - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
A micrometers-long helical homopolymer of the outer-membrane cytochrome type S (OmcS)
from Geobacter sulfurreducens is proposed to transport electrons to extracellular acceptors …

A quantitative bacteria monitoring and killing platform based on electron transfer from bacteria to a semiconductor

G Wang, K Tang, Z Meng, P Liu, S Mo… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A platform with both bacteria killing and sensing capabilities is crucial for monitoring the
entire bacteria‐related process on biomaterials and biomedical devices. Electron transfer …

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 …

Riboflavin for women's health and emerging microbiome strategies

CEMK Dricot, I Erreygers, E Cauwenberghs… - npj Biofilms and …, 2024 - nature.com
Riboflavin (vitamin B2) is an essential water-soluble vitamin that serves as a precursor of
flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD). FMN and FAD are …

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 …