Extracellular Electron Exchange Capabilities of Desulfovibrio ferrophilus and Desulfopila corrodens

Microbial extracellular electron transfer plays an important role in diverse biogeochemical cycles, metal corrosion, bioelectrochemical technologies, and anaerobic digestion. Evaluation of electron uptake from pure Fe(0) and stainless steel indicated that, in contrast to previous speculation in the literature, Desulfovibrio ferrophilus and Desulfopila corrodens are not able to directly extract electrons from solid-phase electron-donating surfaces. D. ferrophilus grew with Fe(III) as the electron acceptor, but Dp. corrodens did not. D. ferrophilus reduced Fe(III) oxide occluded within porous alginate beads, suggesting that it released a soluble electron shuttle to promote Fe(III) oxide reduction. Conductive atomic force microscopy revealed that the D. ferrophilus pili are electrically conductive and the expression of a gene encoding an aromatics-rich putative pilin was upregulated during growth on Fe(III) oxide. The expression of genes for multi-heme c-type cytochromes was not upregulated during growth with Fe(III) as the electron acceptor, and genes for a porin-cytochrome conduit across the outer membrane were not apparent in the genome. The results suggest that D. ferrophilus has adopted a novel combination of strategies to enable extracellular electron transport, which may be of biogeochemical and technological significance.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:55

Enthalten in:

Environmental science & technology - 55(2021), 23 vom: 07. Dez., Seite 16195-16203

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liang, Dandan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xinying [VerfasserIn]
Woodard, Trevor L [VerfasserIn]
Holmes, Dawn E [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Jessica A [VerfasserIn]
Nevin, Kelly P [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Yujie [VerfasserIn]
Lovley, Derek R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Conductive pili
Extracellular electron transfer
Fe(III) oxide reduction
Ferric Compounds
Journal Article
Metal corrosion
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 10.12.2021

Date Revised 14.12.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.est.1c04071

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM33286362X