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Published on: April 16, 2018
Enhancing Bidirectional Electron Transfer of Shewanella oneidensis by a Synthetic Flavin Pathway
Yun Yang1,2, Yuanzhao Ding2, Yidan Hu1,2
1‡School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637457, Singapore.
Abstract:
Flavins regulate the rate and direction of extracellular electron transfer (EET) in Shewanella oneidensis. However, low concentration of endogenously secreted flavins by the wild-type S. oneidensis MR-1 limits its EET efficiency in bioelectrochemical systems (BES). Herein, a synthetic flavin biosynthesis pathway from Bacillus subtilis was heterologously expressed in S. oneidensis MR-1, resulting in ∼25.7 times' increase in secreted flavin concentration. This synthetic flavin module enabled enhanced bidirectional EET rate of MR-1, in which its maximum power output in microbial fuel cells increased ∼13.2 times (from 16.4 to 233.0 mW/m(2)), and the inward current increased ∼15.5 times (from 15.5 to 255.3 μA/cm(2)).
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