Microbial interspecies electron transfer via electric currents through conductive minerals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 10042-10046

  Kato, Souichiro ^a,e   Hashimoto, Kazuhito ^a,b,c   Watanabe, Kazuya ^a,b,d  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Biogeochemistry; Electrode respiration; Microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

IRON OXIDE; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CATABOLISM; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIOBACILLUS DENITRIFICANS;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOBACTER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MINERALS; THIOBACILLUS;

EID: 84862535140     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117592109     Document Type: Article

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