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ArticleBioelectricity2021

Engineering Biological Electron Transfer and Redox Pathways for Nanoparticle Synthesis.

James Q Boedicker, Manasi Gangan, Kyle Naughton, Fengjie Zhao, Jeffrey A Gralnick, Mohamed Y El-Naggar

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Article in Bioelectricity, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Synthesis of Palladium Nanoparticles by Electrode-RespiringACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2025
    Article
  4. Review
  5. Utilizing a divalent metal ion transporter to control biogenic nanoparticle synthesis.Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology · 2023
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

James Q BoedickerDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4107-3719
Manasi GanganDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Kyle NaughtonDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Fengjie ZhaoDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jeffrey A GralnickBioTechnology Institute, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Mohamed Y El-NaggarDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
University of Southern California · USUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many species of bacteria are naturally capable of types of electron transport not observed in eukaryotic cells. Some species live in environments containing heavy metals not typically encountered by cells of multicellular organisms, such as arsenic, cadmium, and mercury, leading to the evolution of enzymes to deal with these environmental toxins. Bacteria also inhabit a variety of extreme environments, and are capable of respiration even in the absence of oxygen as a terminal electron acceptor. Over the years, several of these exotic redox and electron transport pathways have been discovered and characterized in molecular-level detail, and more recently synthetic biology has begun to utilize these pathways to engineer cells capable of detecting and processing a variety of metals and semimetals. One such application is the biologically controlled synthesis of nanoparticles. This review will introduce the basic concepts of bacterial metal reduction, summarize recent work in engineering bacteria for nanoparticle production, and highlight the most cutting-edge work in the characterization and application of bacterial electron transport pathways.

Indexed as

bacterial metal reductionextracellular electron transportmicrobiologynanoparticle synthesisnanotechnologysynthetic biology

Identifiers

PMID34476388
PMCPMC8380940
OpenAlexW3177337755

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