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Direct exchange of electrons within aggregates of an evolved syntrophic coculture of anaerobic bacteria.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 3 Dec 2010
Summers Zarath M, Fogarty Heather E, Leang Ching, Franks Ashley E, Malvankar Nikhil S, Lovley Derek R
Abstract excerpt
Microbial consortia that cooperatively exchange electrons play a key role in the anaerobic processing of organic matter. Interspecies hydrogen transfer is a well-documented strategy for electron exchange in dispersed laboratory cultures, but cooperative partners in natural environments often form multispecies aggregates. We found that laboratory evolution of a coculture of Geobacter metallireducens and Geobacter...
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