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ReviewJournal of bacteriology2026

Inspiration from humans and microbes-and maybe a lot of luck: the "discovery" of

Kenneth Nealson

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Review in Journal of bacteriology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Kenneth NealsonDepartments of Earth Science and Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5189-3732

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the early 1980s, it was generally believed that insoluble electron acceptors were unavailable to bacteria unless they could be solubilized and transferred from the cell exterior to the cell membrane for use in redox reactions. Thus, many potentially active oxidants, such as metal oxides, while thermodynamically capable of acting as electron acceptors for respiration, were thought to not be available to bacteria or archaea. However, in 1988, with the isolation and characterization of

Indexed as

ShewanellaBacterial ProteinsElectron TransportHumansManganese CompoundsOxidation-ReductionOxidesBacterial ProteinsManganese Compoundsmanganese oxideOxidesextracellular electron transfer (EET)multiheme cytochrome (MHC)Shewanella

Identifiers

PMID42284443
PMCPMC13393420

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