Wired for life: Intracellular electron nanowires help methane-producing microbes grow
Methane-producing microbes use iron-sulfur cofactors as a nanowire to split electron energy through specialized megacomplexes. Understanding this process could enable more efficient methane production.
Authors
- Sibel Ebru Yalcin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6041-5297)
- Nikhil S. Malvankar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5611-6633)
Institutions
- Yale University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aek5988
- Primary Topic
- Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00