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Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,1 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California,2 Department of Earth Sciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas,3 Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Korea,4 The J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California,5 Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington,6 Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma,7 Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee,8 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,9 Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea,10
Received 15 May 2007/ Accepted 13 July 2007
Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is a gram-negative facultative anaerobe capable of utilizing a broad range of electron acceptors, including several solid substrates. S. oneidensis MR-1 can reduce Mn(IV) and Fe(III) oxides and can produce current in microbial fuel cells. The mechanisms that are employed by S. oneidensis MR-1 to execute these processes have not yet been fully elucidated. Several different S. oneidensis MR-1 deletion mutants were generated and tested for current production and metal oxide reduction. The results showed that a few key cytochromes play a role in all of the processes but that their degrees of participation in each process are very different. Overall, these data suggest a very complex picture of electron transfer to solid and soluble substrates by S. oneidensis MR-1.
Published ahead of print on 20 July 2007.
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