ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Division of labor and growth during electrical cooperation in multicellular cable bacteria.
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- Metabolic Design Patterns for a Regenerative Architecture.Microbial biotechnology · 2026Review
- Inactive "Ghost" Cells Do Not Affect Motility and Long-Range Electron Transport in Filamentous Cable Bacteria.Environmental microbiology · 2025Article
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- Multidisciplinary methodologies used in the study of cable bacteria.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- End-to-end contact enables long-distance electron transport between filaments in cable bacteria.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Cable Bacteria and Their Biotechnological Application.Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology · 2025Review
- Temperature-Dependent Characterization of Long-Range Conduction in Conductive Protein Fibers of Cable Bacteria.ACS nano · 2024Article
- Tip extension and simultaneous multiple fission in a filamentous bacterium.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Comparative genomic analysis of nickel homeostasis in cable bacteria.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are genetically heterogeneous consortia with metabolically differentiated cells.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Electrogenic sulfur oxidation mediated by cable bacteria and its ecological effects.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2024Review
- Closing the genome of unculturable cable bacteria using a combined metagenomic assembly of long and short sequencing reads.Microbial genomics · 2024Article
- Multi-wavelength Raman microscopy of nickel-based electron transport in cable bacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Bacteria evolve macroscopic multicellularity by the genetic assimilation of phenotypically plastic cell clustering.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Editorial: Electromicrobiology-from electrons to ecosystems, volume II.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Evolutionary Conserved Short Linear Motifs Provide Insights into the Cellular Response to Stress.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Microbial succession in a marine sediment: Inferring interspecific microbial interactions with marine cable bacteria.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Bacterial growth in multicellular aggregates leads to the emergence of complex life cycles.Current biology : CB · 2022Article
- Mutational meltdown of putative microbial altruists in Streptomyces coelicolor colonies.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Dissimilatory nitrate reduction by a freshwater cable bacterium.The ISME journal · 2022Article
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Abstract
Multicellularity is a key evolutionary innovation, leading to coordinated activity and resource sharing among cells, which generally occurs via the physical exchange of chemical compounds. However, filamentous cable bacteria display a unique metabolism in which redox transformations in distant cells are coupled via long-distance electron transport rather than an exchange of chemicals. This challenges our understanding of organismal functioning, as the link among electron transfer, metabolism, energy conservation, and filament growth in cable bacteria remains enigmatic. Here, we show that cells within individual filaments of cable bacteria display a remarkable dichotomy in biosynthesis that coincides with redox zonation. Nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry combined with
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