The 'porin-cytochrome' model for microbe-to-mineral electron transfer

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 201-212

  Richardson, David J ^a   Butt, Julea N ^a   Fredrickson, Jim K ^b   Zachara, John M ^b   Shi, Liang ^b   Edwards, Marcus J ^a   White, Gaye ^a   Baiden, Nanakow ^a   Gates, Andrew J ^a   Marritt, Sophie J ^a   Clarke, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NANOWIRE; PORIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM PILUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SHEWANELLA;

ANAEROBIOSIS; CYTOCHROMES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MINERALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PORINS; SHEWANELLA;

NEGIBACTERIA; SHEWANELLA;

EID: 84863584372     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08088.x     Document Type: Review

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