ジャーナル: NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes / 年: 2023 タイトル: Intracytoplasmic membranes develop in Geobacter sulfurreducens under thermodynamically limiting conditions. 著者: Ethan Howley / Anna Mangus / Dewight Williams / César I Torres / 要旨: Geobacter sulfurreducens is an electroactive bacterium capable of reducing metal oxides in the environment and electrodes in engineered systems. Geobacter sp. are the keystone organisms in ...Geobacter sulfurreducens is an electroactive bacterium capable of reducing metal oxides in the environment and electrodes in engineered systems. Geobacter sp. are the keystone organisms in electrogenic biofilms, as their respiration consumes fermentation products produced by other organisms and reduces a terminal electron acceptor e.g. iron oxide or an electrode. To respire extracellular electron acceptors with a wide range of redox potentials, G. sulfurreducens has a complex network of respiratory proteins, many of which are membrane-bound. We have identified intracytoplasmic membrane (ICM) structures in G. sulfurreducens. This ICM is an invagination of the inner membrane that has folded and organized by an unknown mechanism, often but not always located near the tip of a cell. Using confocal microscopy, we can identify that at least half of the cells contain an ICM when grown on low potential anode surfaces, whereas cells grown at higher potential anode surfaces or using fumarate as electron acceptor had significantly lower ICM frequency. 3D models developed from cryo-electron tomograms show the ICM to be a continuous extension of the inner membrane in contact with the cytoplasmic and periplasmic space. The differential abundance of ICM in cells grown under different thermodynamic conditions supports the hypothesis that it is an adaptation to limited energy availability, as an increase in membrane-bound respiratory proteins could increase electron flux. Thus, the ICM provides extra inner-membrane surface to increase the abundance of these proteins. G. sulfurreducens is the first Thermodesulfobacterium or metal-oxide reducer found to produce ICMs.
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注釈
Tomogram of a Geobacter sulfurreducens cell grown directly on a holey carbon grid that was poised at -0.07 V vs. SHE.
ボクセルのサイズ
X=Y=Z: 6.7 Å
密度
最小 - 最大
-128.0 - 127.0
平均 (標準偏差)
47.058784 (±6.9368005)
対称性
空間群: 1
詳細
EMDB XML:
マップ形状
Axis order
X
Y
Z
Origin
-351
36
251
サイズ
1430
1920
470
Spacing
1920
1430
470
セル
A: 12864.0 Å / B: 9581.0 Å / C: 3149.0 Å α=β=γ: 90.0 °
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添付データ
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試料の構成要素
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全体 : Geobacter sulfurreducens
全体
名称: Geobacter sulfurreducens (バクテリア)
要素
細胞: Geobacter sulfurreducens
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超分子 #1: Geobacter sulfurreducens
超分子
名称: Geobacter sulfurreducens / タイプ: cell / ID: 1 / 親要素: 0 詳細: Geobacter sulfurreducens was grown in an electrochemical cell directly on a gold grid that was then plunge frozen.