Cable bacteria: living electrical conduits for biogeochemical cycling and water environment restoration

X **ong, Y Li, C Zhang - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Since the discovery of multicellular cable bacteria in marine sediments in 2012, they have
attracted widespread attention and interest due to their unprecedented ability to generate …

Enhancing clinical utility: utilization of international standards and guidelines for metagenomic sequencing in infectious disease diagnosis

CM Kan, HF Tsang, XM Pei, SSM Ng, AKY Yim… - International journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Metagenomic sequencing has emerged as a transformative tool in infectious disease
diagnosis, offering a comprehensive and unbiased approach to pathogen detection …

Enhanced phosphorus removal from anoxic water using oxygen-carrying iron-rich biochar: Combined roles of adsorption and keystone taxa

X **ong, Y Li, C Zhang - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic enrichment of phosphorus (P) in water environment can cause
eutrophication, harmful algal blooms, and water quality deterioration. Adsorbents are often …

Swimming towards each other: the role of chemotaxis in bacterial interactions

JR Seymour, DR Brumley, R Stocker, JB Raina - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Chemotaxis allows microorganisms to direct movement in response to chemical stimuli.
Bacteria use this behaviour to develop spatial associations with animals and plants, and …

Interaction of living cable bacteria with carbon electrodes in bioelectrochemical systems

R Bonné, IPG Marshall, JJ Bjerg… - Applied and …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Cable bacteria are filamentous bacteria that couple the oxidation of sulfide in sediments to
the reduction of oxygen via long-distance electron transport over centimeter distances …

Multi-wavelength Raman microscopy of nickel-based electron transport in cable bacteria

B Smets, HTS Boschker, MT Wetherington… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Cable bacteria embed a network of conductive protein fibers in their cell envelope that
efficiently guides electron transport over distances spanning up to several centimeters. This …

[HTML][HTML] First single-strain enrichments of Electrothrix cable bacteria, description of E. aestuarii sp. nov. and E. rattekaaiensis sp. nov., and proposal of a cable bacteria …

LE Plum-Jensen, A Schramm, IPG Marshall - Systematic and Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cable bacteria are electrically conductive, filamentous Desulfobulbaceae, which are
morphologically, functionally, and phylogenetically distinct from the other members of this …

Cable bacteria: widespread filamentous electroactive microorganisms protecting environments

M Dong, LP Nielsen, S Yang, LH Klausen, M Xu - Trends in microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Cable bacteria have been identified and detected worldwide since their discovery in marine
sediments in Aarhus Bay, Denmark. Their activity can account for the majority of oxygen …

Electron transfer in the biogeochemical sulfur cycle

X Zhuang, S Wang, S Wu - Life, 2024 - mdpi.com
Microorganisms are key players in the global biogeochemical sulfur cycle. Among them,
some have garnered particular attention due to their electrical activity and ability to perform …

Effects of cable bacteria on vertical redox profile formation and phenanthrene biodegradation in intertidal sediment responded to tide

X Yang, Y Li, J Pu, Y Huang, T Luan, M Xu - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Periodic oxygen permeation is critical for pollutant removal within intertidal sediments.
However, tidal effects on the vertical redox profile associated with cable bacterial activity is …