2024
Widespread extracellular electron transfer pathways for charging microbial cytochrome OmcS nanowires via periplasmic cytochromes PpcABCDE
Portela P, Shipps C, Shen C, Srikanth V, Salgueiro C, Malvankar N. Widespread extracellular electron transfer pathways for charging microbial cytochrome OmcS nanowires via periplasmic cytochromes PpcABCDE. Nature Communications 2024, 15: 2434. PMID: 38509081, PMCID: PMC10954620, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46192-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsExtracellular electron transferExtracellular electron transfer pathwaysHeme reduction potentialEfficient extracellular electron transferInner membraneBiotechnological applicationsPeriplasmic cytochromesMicrobial nanowiresElectron transfer pathwayPpcABCDEPathwayEET pathwayCytochromePeriplasmEnvironmental processesMicrobesElectron transferBacteriaGeobacterTransfer pathwayReduction potential
2021
Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation
Wong GCL, Antani JD, Lele PP, Chen J, Nan B, Kühn MJ, Persat A, Bru JL, Høyland-Kroghsbo NM, Siryaporn A, Conrad JC, Carrara F, Yawata Y, Stocker R, Brun Y, Whitfield GB, Lee CK, de Anda J, Schmidt WC, Golestanian R, O’Toole G, Floyd KA, Yildiz FH, Yang S, Jin F, Toyofuku M, Eberl L, Nomura N, Zacharoff LA, El-Naggar MY, Yalcin SE, Malvankar NS, Rojas-Andrade MD, Hochbaum AI, Yan J, Stone HA, Wingreen NS, Bassler BL, Wu Y, Xu H, Drescher K, Dunkel J. Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation. Physical Biology 2021, 18: 10.1088/1478-3975/abdc0e. PMID: 33462162, PMCID: PMC8506656, DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/abdc0e.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBacterial biofilmsPhysiology of microbesBiofilm microbiologyCommunities of bacteriaSingle-cell behaviorWork of physicistsAtomic physicsRecent important discoveriesNew physicsMatter physicsCellular organizationPhysical biologyPhysicsBiofilmsBiologyPhysicistsSurprising behaviorEnergy flowImportant discoveriesIntense attentionDivision of laborMicrobesMicrobiologyCommunity behaviorOpposite strategy