Aromatic amino acids required for pili conductivity and long-range extracellular electron transport in Geobacter sulfurreducens

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Vargas, Madeline ^a,b   Malvankar, Nikhil S ^a   Tremblay, Pier Luc ^a   Leang, Ching ^a   Smith, Jessica A ^a   Patel, Pranav ^a   Synoeyenbos West, Oona ^a   Nevin, Kelly P ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; CYTOCHROME C; FERRIC OXIDE; GRAPHITE; OMCS PROTEIN; PILA PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FERRIC ION; FIMBRIA PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANODE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTRACELLULAR ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; BIOENERGY; ELECTRICITY; FIMBRIA; GENETICS; GEOBACTER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACIDS, AROMATIC; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOFILMS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GEOBACTER; GRAPHITE;

EID: 84880037294     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00105-13     Document Type: Article

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