Toshiyuki Ueki

TL;DR: It is reported that Syntrophus aciditrophicus, one of the most intensively studied microbial models for HFIT, produces e-pili and can grow via DIET, necessitates a reexamination of the paradigm that HFIT is the predominant mechanism for syntrophic electron exchange within anaerobic microbial communities of biogeochemical and practical significance.

TL;DR: The specific attachment of strain ACLHF to Fe(0), coupled with requirements for known extracellular electrical contacts, suggest that direct metal-microbe electron transfer is the most likely option forFe(0) serving as an electron donor.

TL;DR: In this article, the mechanism for microbial corrosion of stainless steel, the metal of choice for many actual applications, can be significantly different from that for Fe(0), although H2 is often an intermediary electron carrier between the metal and microbes during Fe( 0) corrosion, making this corrosion mechanism unlikely.

TL;DR: The finding that DIET is possible with electron-accepting partners that lack highly conductive pili greatly expands the range of potential electron- acceptance partners that might participate in DIET.

TL;DR: The G. sulfurreducens RpoN is an essential sigma factor and a global regulator involved in a complex transcriptional network controlling a variety of cellular processes.