ArticleBioelectricity2021
Toward Bacterial Bioelectric Signal Transduction.
Article in Bioelectricity, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Membrane Targeted Azobenzene Drives Optical Modulation of Bacterial Membrane Potential.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Bacteria are electrically powered organisms; cells maintain an electrical potential across their plasma membrane as a source of free energy to drive essential processes. In recent years, however, bacterial membrane potential has been increasingly recognized as dynamic. Those dynamics have been implicated in diverse physiological functions and behaviors, including cell division and cell-to-cell signaling. In eukaryotic cells, such dynamics play major roles in coupling bioelectrical stimuli to changes in internal cell states. Neuroscientists and physiologists have established detailed molecular pathways that transduce eukaryotic membrane potential dynamics to physiological and gene expression responses. We are only just beginning to explore these intracellular responses to bioelectrical activity in bacteria. In this review, we summarize progress in this area, including evidence of gene expression responses to stimuli from electrodes and mechanically induced membrane potential spikes. We argue that the combination of provocative results, missing molecular detail, and emerging tools makes the investigation of bioelectrically induced long-term intracellular responses an important and rewarding effort in the future of microbiology.
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