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SUBMITTER: Yangqi Gu
PROVIDER: EMPIAR-11439 | biostudies-other |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Gu Yangqi Y Guberman-Pfeffer Matthew J MJ Srikanth Vishok V Shen Cong C Giska Fabian F Gupta Kallol K Londer Yuri Y Samatey Fadel A FA Batista Victor S VS Malvankar Nikhil S NS
Nature microbiology 20230202 2
OmcZ nanowires produced by Geobacter species have high electron conductivity (>30 S cm<sup>-1</sup>). Of 111 cytochromes present in G. sulfurreducens, OmcZ is the only known nanowire-forming cytochrome essential for the formation of high-current-density biofilms that require long-distance (>10 µm) extracellular electron transport. However, the mechanisms underlying OmcZ nanowire assembly and high conductivity are unknown. Here we report a 3.5-Å-resolution cryogenic electron microscopy structure ...[more]