ArticleScience advances2021
Oxygen consumption of individual cable bacteria.
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- How low can they go? Aerobic respiration by microorganisms under apparent anoxia.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Extracellular electron transfer in cable bacteria enables growth rates comparable to aerobic respiration.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Evidence for cable bacteria inhabiting deep in anoxic sediment reveals a novel ecological niche.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Iron reduction under oxic conditions by Microbacterium deferre sp. nov. A1-JKNature communications · 2025Article
- 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
- Size-related variability of oxygen consumption rates in individual human hepatic cells.Lab on a chip · 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
- Electron Transfer in the Biogeochemical Sulfur Cycle.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Spatially resolved quantification of oxygen consumption rate inThe Analyst · 2024Article
- Closing the genome of unculturable cable bacteria using a combined metagenomic assembly of long and short sequencing reads.Microbial genomics · 2024Article
- Electromicrobiological concentration cells are an overlooked potential energy conservation mechanism for subsurface microorganisms.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Risk assessment and bioburden evaluation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transient protein expression in plants using the CaMV35S promoter.BMC biotechnology · 2023Article
- Persistent flocks of diverse motile bacteria in long-term incubations of electron-conducting cable bacteria,Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Microbial succession in a marine sediment: Inferring interspecific microbial interactions with marine cable bacteria.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Noise versus Resolution in Optical Chemical Imaging-How Reliable Are Our Measurements?ACS omega · 2022Article
- Polyphosphate Dynamics in Cable Bacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The electric wires of cable bacteria possibly support a unique respiration mode with a few oxygen-reducing cells flaring off electrons, while oxidation of the electron donor and the associated energy conservation and growth is allocated to other cells not exposed to oxygen. Cable bacteria are centimeter-long, multicellular, filamentous Desulfobulbaceae that transport electrons across oxic-anoxic interfaces in aquatic sediments. From observed distortions of the oxic-anoxic interface, we derived oxygen consumption rates of individual cable bacteria and found biomass-specific rates of unheard magnitude in biology. Tightly controlled behavior, possibly involving intercellular electrical signaling, was found to generally keep <10% of individual filaments exposed to oxygen. The results strengthen the hypothesis that cable bacteria indeed have evolved an exceptional way to take the full energetic advantages of aerobic respiration and let >90% of the cells metabolize in the convenient absence of oxidative stress.
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