Long-range electron transport in Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms is redox gradient-driven

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

Volumn 109, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 15467-15472

  Snider, Rachel M ^a   Strycharz Glaven, Sarah M ^b   Tsoi, Stanislav D ^b   Erickson, Jeffrey S ^b   Tender, Leonard M ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioelectrochemical system; Geomicrobiology; Microbial electrochemistry; Microbial fuel cell; Multistep electron hopping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOFILM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; LONG RANGE ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MEASUREMENT; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOFILMS; CATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; GEOBACTER; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN;

GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

EID: 84866525384     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209829109     Document Type: Article

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