Microbial Metal Respiration From Geochemistry to Potential Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gescher, Johannes (Editor), Kappler, Andreas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Geobiology.; Microbial ecology.; Microbiology.; Life Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Microbial Ecology.

Microbes can respire on metals. This seemingly simple finding is one of the major discoveries that were made in the field of microbiology in the last few decades. The importance of this observation is evident. Metals are highly abundant on our planet. Iron is even the most abundant element on Earth...

Table of Contents:

• Minerals and Aqueous Species of Iron and Manganese as Reactants and Products of Microbial Metal Respiration
• Energetic and Molecular Constraints on the Mechanism of Environmental Fe(III) Reduction by Geobacter
• Biochemistry of Extracellular Respiration in Shewanella oneidensis
• On the Role of Endogenous Electron Shuttles in Extracellular Electron Transfer
• Humic Substances and Extracellular Electron Transfer
• Metal Reducers und Reduction Targets. A Short Survey about the Distribution of Dissimilatory Metal Reducers and the Multitude of Terminal Electron Acceptors
• Metal Reduction as a Tool in Bioremediation Processes
• Dissimilatory Metal Reducers Producing Electricity
• Microbial Fuel Cells. .