Bacterial Recognition of Mineral Surfaces: Nanoscale Interactions Between Shewanella and α-FeOOH

By S. Lower, M. Hochella, T. Beveridge. Science, 2001

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Environmental Engineering, Molecular Biology

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Mihail C. Roco
2. E. Gaidos
3. M. Hochella

In Environmental Engineering

1. A. Kappler
2. K. Konhauser
3. M. Hochella
4. E. Roden
5. Derek R. Lovley

In Molecular Biology

1. Hazel A. Barton
2. Mihail C. Roco
3. Jim K. Fredrickson
4. Diana E. Northup
5. A. Kappler
6. M. Hochella
7. E. Roden
8. K. Konhauser

Citations in the corpus

• GEOMICROBIOLOGY IN CAVE ENVIRONMENTS: PAST, CURRENT AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES (2007, background): “, 2001), while atomic force microscopy allows us to examine the intra-molecular forces that allow microorganisms to acquire energy from mineral surfaces (Lower et al., 2001).”
• Bacterial biomineralization: new insights from Myxococcus-induced mineral precipitation (2010, background): “It should be indicated that the Fe(II)–Fe(III) redox cycle represents a major energy flux at the Earth surface (Lower et al. 2001).”
• There’s plenty of room at the bottom: nanoscience in geochemistry (2002, methodology): “Recently, all of these forces of interaction, between fully viable bacteria and various mineral surfaces in aqueous solution, have been quantitatively measured in real time using a variation of atomic force microscopy, a technique that we call biologic force microscopy, or BFM (Lower et al., 2000, 2”
• Nonlocal bacterial electron transfer to hematite surfaces (2003, background): “…of Shewanella on goethite ( -FeOOH) is initially 2 to 4 times stronger under anaerobic conditions than aerobic, and that the force required for cell removal increases with attachment duration, indicating that cell mobility is less favorable under anaerobic conditions (Lower et al., 2001).”
• Genome sequence of the dissimilatory metal ion–reducing bacterium Shewanella oneidensis (2002, background): “Presumably, during anaerobic electron transport, multiple components of this system shunt electrons to insoluble metal oxides, which are reduced during contact with the bacterial surfac”
• Nanotechnology: convergence with modern biology and medicine. (2003, background): “Furthermore, a biological force microscope, which is capable of quantitatively measuring interfacial and adhesion forces between living bacteria and mineral surfaces in situ, has been developed [11].”