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Yang Tan1, Ramesh Y Adhikari2, Nikhil S Malvankar1,2,3
1Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA.
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|July 14, 2016
Abstract:
Genetic modification to add tryptophan to PilA, the monomer for the electrically conductive pili of Geobacter sulfurreducens, yields conductive protein filaments 2000-fold more conductive than the wild-type pili while cutting the diameter in half to 1.5 nm.
