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Extracellular reduction of solid electron acceptors by Shewanella oneidensis
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.3749
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2018-07-11
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Beblawy, Sebastian
Gescher, Johannes
TORE-DOI
Journal
Volume
109
Issue
5
Start Page
571
End Page
583
Citation
Molecular Microbiology 109 (5): 571-583 (2018)
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Scopus ID
PubMed ID
29995975
Publisher
Molecular Diversity Preservation International
Shewanella oneidensis is the best understood model organism for the study of dissimilatory iron reduction. This review focuses on the current state of our knowledge regarding this extracellular respiratory process and highlights its physiologic, regulatory and biochemical requirements. It seems that we have widely understood how respiratory electrons can reach the cell surface and what the minimal set of electron transport proteins to the cell surface is. Nevertheless, even after decades of work in different research groups around the globe there are still several important questions that were not answered yet. In particular, the physiology of this organism, the possible evolutionary benefit of some responses to anoxic conditions, as well as the exact mechanism of electron transfer onto solid electron acceptors are yet to be addressed. The elucidation of these questions will be a great challenge for future work and important for the application of extracellular respiration in biotechnological processes.
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570: Biowissenschaften, Biologie
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