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Proteins, Expression, Isolation and Analysis> | To analyze the distribution of c-type cytochromes in OMVs, the purified vesicles were suspended in 1× LDS (lithium dodecyl sulfate) sample buffer (GenScript, Nanjing, China), boiled, and separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate−polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS−PAGE). | Get A Quote |
: Many Gram-negative bacteria are known to release outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) into the surrounding environment during normal growth; OMVs perform diverse biological and environmental functions (e.g., virulence factor transport, horizontal gene transfer, quorum signaling, cellular defense, and cell-to-cell communication). However, the production of OMVs has not been reported in Geobacter species, and their role in extracellular electron transfer (EET) is unknown. Here, we demonstrate, for the first time, that Geobacter sulfurreducens releases OMVs containing abundant cytochromes that can promote EET from microbial cells to an anode. OMVs released by Geobacter cells not only promote exoelectrogen EET... More