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A survey of the Desulfuromonadia "cytochromome" provides a glimpse of the unexplored diversity of multiheme cytochromes in nature.
BMC genomics - 20 Oct 2024
Soares Ricardo, Fonseca Bruno M, Nash Benjamin W, Paquete Catarina M, Louro Ricardo O
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BACKGROUND: Multiheme cytochromes c (MHC) provide prokaryotes with a broad metabolic versatility that contributes to their role in the biogeochemical cycling of the elements and in energy production in bioelectrochemical systems. However, MHC have only been isolated and studied in detail from a limited number of species. Among these, Desulfuromonadia spp. are particularly MHC-rich. To obtain a broad view of the...
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