ArticleNature communications2019
A highly conductive fibre network enables centimetre-scale electron transport in multicellular cable bacteria.
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- Mixed Ionic and Electronic Charge Transport in Conductive Protein Fibers Revealed with DC Electrical Measurements.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Article
- Inactive "Ghost" Cells Do Not Affect Motility and Long-Range Electron Transport in Filamentous Cable Bacteria.Environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- A novel cable bacteria species with a distinct morphology and genomic potential.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Comparison of cable bacteria genera reveals details of their conduction machinery.EMBO reports · 2025Article
- Nickel-Dithiolene Cofactors as Electron Donors and Acceptors in Protein Hosts.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2025Article
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- Electron transfer in multicentre redox proteins: from fundamentals to extracellular electron transfer.Bioscience reports · 2025Review
- Hydrated cable bacteria exhibit protonic conductivity over long distances.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Extracellular electron transfer genes expressed by candidate flocking bacteria in cable bacteria sediment.mSystems · 2025Article
- Multidisciplinary methodologies used in the study of cable bacteria.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
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Abstract
Biological electron transport is classically thought to occur over nanometre distances, yet recent studies suggest that electrical currents can run along centimetre-long cable bacteria. The phenomenon remains elusive, however, as currents have not been directly measured, nor have the conductive structures been identified. Here we demonstrate that cable bacteria conduct electrons over centimetre distances via highly conductive fibres embedded in the cell envelope. Direct electrode measurements reveal nanoampere currents in intact filaments up to 10.1 mm long (>2000 adjacent cells). A network of parallel periplasmic fibres displays a high conductivity (up to 79 S cm
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