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Christopher M Dundas1, Benjamin K Keitz2
1Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Trends in Biotechnology
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Bacteria that perform extracellular electron transfer (EET) are central to redox-driven biotechnologies, including microbial fuel cells, bioremediation, and bioelectrosynthesis. However, engineerable EET strains have been restricted to well-characterized, Gram-negative model species. Light et al. identified a previously unknown but widely conserved EET pathway in the Gram-positive bacterium Listeria monocytogenes.

