ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018
Long-distance electron transport in individual, living cable bacteria.
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- Cable Bacteria and Their Biotechnological Application.Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology · 2025Review
- Long-Distance Electron Transport in Unicellular Organisms and Biofilms.Reviews of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology · 2025Review
- Review: can bioelectrochemical sensors be used to monitor soil microbiome activity and fertility?Current opinion in biotechnology · 2024Review
- Temperature-Dependent Characterization of Long-Range Conduction in Conductive Protein Fibers of Cable Bacteria.ACS nano · 2024Article
- Interaction of living cable bacteria with carbon electrodes in bioelectrochemical systems.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2024Article
- Comparative genomic analysis of nickel homeostasis in cable bacteria.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Electrogenic sulfur oxidation mediated by cable bacteria and its ecological effects.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2024Review
- Towards bioprocess engineering of cable bacteria: Establishment of a synthetic sediment.MicrobiologyOpen · 2024Article
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Abstract
Electron transport within living cells is essential for energy conservation in all respiring and photosynthetic organisms. While a few bacteria transport electrons over micrometer distances to their surroundings, filaments of cable bacteria are hypothesized to conduct electric currents over centimeter distances. We used resonance Raman microscopy to analyze cytochrome redox states in living cable bacteria. Cable-bacteria filaments were placed in microscope chambers with sulfide as electron source and oxygen as electron sink at opposite ends. Along individual filaments a gradient in cytochrome redox potential was detected, which immediately broke down upon removal of oxygen or laser cutting of the filaments. Without access to oxygen, a rapid shift toward more reduced cytochromes was observed, as electrons were no longer drained from the filament but accumulated in the cellular cytochromes. These results provide direct evidence for long-distance electron transport in living multicellular bacteria.
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