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ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 2, Issue 8, Pages 1749-1752Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cs3003808
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microbial fuel cell; bioelectrocatalysis; citric acid cycle; arcA knockout; extracellular electron transfer; glycerol
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The bioelectrocatalysis in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) relies on both electrochemistry and metabolism of microbes. We discovered that under MFC microaerobic condition, an arcA knockout mutant Escherichia coli (arcA(-)) shows enhanced activation of the citric acid cycle (TCA cycle) for glycerol oxidation, as indicated by the increased key enzymes' activity in the TCA cycle. Meanwhile, a diffusive electron mediator (hydroxyl quinone derivative) is excreted by the genetically engineered arcA, resulting in a much higher power density than its parental strain toward glycerol oxidation. This work demonstrates that metabolic engineering is a feasible approach to construct efficient bioelectrocatalysts for high-performance MFCs.
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