CymA and Exogenous Flavins Improve Extracellular Electron Transfer and Couple It to Cell Growth in Mtr-Expressing Escherichia coli

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 679-688

  Jensen, Heather M ^a,b,e   TerAvest, Michaela A ^d,f   Kokish, Mark G ^a,b,g   Ajo Franklin, Caroline M ^a,c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Berkeley Center for Synthetic Biology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bioelectrochemical systems; dissimilatory metal reducing bacteria; energy conservation; multiheme cytochrome c; synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; CYTOCHROME C CYMA; CYTOCHROME C MTR; FERRIC ION; FERROZINE; RIBOFLAVIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME C(3); FERRIC CITRATE; FERRIC OXIDE; IRON; MTRA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; MTRC PROTEIN, SHEWANELLA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBOFLAVIN;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CATION EXCHANGE; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL VIABILITY; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; CYTOLYSIS; DENSITOMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACELLULAR ELECTRON TRANSFER; INNER MEMBRANE; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROCEDURES; SHEWANELLA;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FLAVINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IRON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBOFLAVIN; SHEWANELLA;

EID: 84978698063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00279     Document Type: Article

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