{"id":88908,"date":"2019-03-24T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/study-shows-how-electricity-eating-microbes-use-electrons-to-fix-carbon-dioxide"},"modified":"2019-03-24T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T16:02:22","slug":"study-shows-how-electricity-eating-microbes-use-electrons-to-fix-carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/study-shows-how-electricity-eating-microbes-use-electrons-to-fix-carbon-dioxide","title":{"rendered":"Study shows how electricity-eating microbes use electrons to fix carbon dioxide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z5cyX0MUAiU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New research from Washington University in St. Louis explains the cellular processes that allow a sun-loving microbe to \u201ceat\u201d electricity\u2014transferring electrons to fix carbon dioxide to fuel its growth.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Arpita Bose, assistant professor of biology in Arts &amp; Sciences, and Michael Guzman, a Ph.D. candidate in her laboratory, a Washington University team showed how a naturally occurring strain of <i>Rhodopseudomonas palustris<\/i> takes up electrons from conductive substances like metal oxides or rust. The work is described in a March 22 paper in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The study builds on Bose\u2019s previous discovery that <i>R. palustris<\/i> TIE-1 can consume electrons from rust proxies like poised electrodes, a process called extracellular electron uptake. <i>R. palustris<\/i> is phototrophic, which means that it uses energy from light to carry out certain metabolic processes. The new research explains the cellular sinks where this microbe dumps the electrons it eats from electricity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-electricity-eating-microbes-electrons-carbon-dioxide.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;03-electricity-eating-microbe...oxide.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from Washington University in St. Louis explains the cellular processes that allow a sun-loving microbe to \u201ceat\u201d electricity\u2014transferring electrons to fix carbon dioxide to fuel its growth. Led by Arpita Bose, assistant professor of biology in Arts &amp; Sciences, and Michael Guzman, a Ph.D. candidate in her laboratory, a Washington University team showed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}