Bacterial biofilms as platforms engineered for diverse applications

Binding Peptide-Guided Immobilization of Lipases with Significantly Improved Catalytic Performance Using Escherichia coli BL21(DE3) Biofilms as a Platform

(2021) Hao Dong et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Robust Self‐Regeneratable Stiff Living Materials Fabricated from Microbial Cells

(2021) Avinash Manjula‐Basavanna et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Biofilm application in the microbial biochemicals production process

(2021) Yujia Jiang et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Progress in Microbial Fuel Cell Technology for Wastewater Treatment and Energy Harvesting

(2021) Hajera Gul et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Stainless steel corrosion via direct iron-to-microbe electron transfer by Geobacter species

(2021) Hai-Yan Tang et al.   ISME Journal

Water-processable, biodegradable and coatable aquaplastic from engineered biofilms

(2021) Anna M. Duraj-Thatte et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Gene Regulation of Biofilm-Associated Functional Amyloids

(2021) Khushal Khambhati et al.   Pathogens

Pigmented Pseudoalteromonas piscicida exhibited dual effects on steel corrosion: Inhibition of uniform corrosion and induction of pitting corrosion

(2021) Zhangwei Guo et al.   CORROSION SCIENCE

Marine Biofilms with Significant Corrosion Inhibition Performance by Secreting Extracellular Polymeric Substances

(2021) Zhong Li et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Microbiologically influenced corrosion inhibition mechanisms in corrosion protection: A review

(2021) Yuntian Lou et al.   BIOELECTROCHEMISTRY

Programmable microbial ink for 3D printing of living materials produced from genetically engineered protein nanofibers

(2021) Anna M. Duraj-Thatte et al.   Nature Communications

Engineering Bacillus subtilis for the formation of a durable living biocomposite material

(2021) Sun-Young Kang et al.   Nature Communications

Emergent Biological Endurance Depends on Extracellular Matrix Composition of Three-Dimensionally Printed Escherichia coli Biofilms

(2021) Srikkanth Balasubramanian et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Compartmentalized microbes and co-cultures in hydrogels for on-demand bioproduction and preservation

(2020) Trevor G. Johnston et al.   Nature Communications

An Escherichia coli Chassis for Production of Electrically Conductive Protein Nanowires

(2020) Toshiyuki Ueki et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Developing a new class of engineered live bacterial therapeutics to treat human diseases

(2020) Mark R. Charbonneau et al.   Nature Communications

Virus Disinfection from Environmental Water Sources Using Living Engineered Biofilm Materials

(2020) Jiahua Pu et al.   Advanced Science

Marine bacteria inhibit corrosion of steel via synergistic biomineralization

(2020) Na Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Living materials fabricated via gradient mineralization of light-inducible biofilms

(2020) Yanyi Wang et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Materials design by synthetic biology

(2020) Tzu-Chieh Tang et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Engineering controllable biofilms for biotechnological applications

(2020) Manisha Mukherjee et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Inhibiting corrosion of aluminum alloy 5083 through Vibrio species biofilm

(2020) Yu Gao et al.   CORROSION SCIENCE

Bioleaching for detoxification of waste flotation tailings: Relationship between EPS substances and bioleaching behavior

(2020) Maoyou Ye et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Engineered Bacillus subtilis biofilms as living glues

(2019) Chen Zhang et al.   Materials Today

Inner Workings: How bacteria could help recycle electronic waste

(2019) Roberta Kwok   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temporary Inhibition of the Corrosion of AZ31B Magnesium Alloy by Formation of Bacillus subtilis Biofilm in Artificial Seawater

(2019) Yaxin Kang et al.   Materials

Direct Writing of Tunable Living Inks for Bioprocess Intensification

(2019) Fang Qian et al.   NANO LETTERS

Light‐Controlled, High‐Resolution Patterning of Living Engineered Bacteria Onto Textiles, Ceramics, and Plastic

(2019) Felix Moser et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Structure of Microbial Nanowires Reveals Stacked Hemes that Transport Electrons over Micrometers

(2019) Fengbin Wang et al.   CELL

Corrosion Inhibition of X80 Steel in Simulated Marine Environment with Marinobacter aquaeolei

(2019) M. Saleem Khan et al.   Acta Metallurgica Sinica-English Letters

Bacillus subtilis Inhibits Vibrio natriegens-Induced Corrosion via Biomineralization in Seawater

(2019) Zhangwei Guo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Molybdenum-mediated chemotaxis of Pseudoalteromonas lipolytica enhances biofilm-induced mineralization on low alloy steel surface

(2019) Zhangwei Guo et al.   CORROSION SCIENCE

Immobilization of functional nano-objects in living engineered bacterial biofilms for catalytic applications

(2019) Xinyu Wang et al.   National Science Review

Patterned Amyloid Materials Integrating Robustness and Genetically Programmable Functionality

(2019) Yingfeng Li et al.   NANO LETTERS

Strategies for improving the electroactivity and specific metabolic functionality of microorganisms for various microbial electrochemical technologies

(2019) P. Chiranjeevi et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Optogenetic Modulation of a Catalytic Biofilm for the Biotransformation of Indole into Tryptophan

(2019) Yidan Hu et al.   ChemSusChem

Bioleaching approach for extraction of metal values from secondary solid wastes: A critical review

(2019) Haragobinda Srichandan et al.   HYDROMETALLURGY

Resilient living materials built by printing bacterial spores

(2019) Lina M. González et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Engineered E. coli Nissle 1917 for the delivery of matrix-tethered therapeutic domains to the gut

(2019) Pichet Praveschotinunt et al.   Nature Communications

Study of pitting corrosion inhibition effect on aluminum alloy in seawater by biomineralized film

(2019) Yuanyuan Shen et al.   BIOELECTROCHEMISTRY

Additive Manufacturing of Catalytically Active Living Materials

(2018) Abhijit Saha et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Advances in bioleaching for recovery of metals and bioremediation of fuel ash and sewage sludge

(2018) Tingyue Gu et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Microbial fuel cell (MFC) power performance improvement through enhanced microbial electrogenicity

(2018) Ming Li et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Repurposing bacterial extracellular matrix for selective and differential abstraction of rare earth elements

(2018) Pei Kun R. Tay et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Programming a Biofilm-Mediated Multienzyme-Assembly-Cascade System for the Biocatalytic Production of Glucosamine from Chitin

(2018) Jingjing Bao et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

The biofilm matrix polysaccharides cellulose and alginate both protect Pseudomonas putida mt-2 against reactive oxygen species generated under matric stress and copper exposure

(2018) Nanna B. Svenningsen et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Bacterial adhesion at the single-cell level

(2018) Cecile Berne et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Biofilm Lithography enables high-resolution cell patterning via optogenetic adhesin expression

(2018) Xiaofan Jin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Overview of strategies for enhanced treatment of municipal/domestic wastewater at low temperature

(2018) Hexi Zhou et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Programming Integrative Extracellular and Intracellular Biocatalysis for Rapid, Robust, and Recyclable Synthesis of Trehalose

(2018) Ling Jiang et al.   ACS Catalysis

Tracking of Engineered Bacteria In Vivo Using Nonstandard Amino Acid Incorporation

(2018) Pichet Praveschotinunt et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Printing of Patterned, Engineered E. coli Biofilms with a Low-Cost 3D Printer

(2018) Dominik T. Schmieden et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Stabilizing interaction of exopolymers with nano-Se and impact on mercury immobilization in soil and groundwater

(2018) Xiaonan Wang et al.   Environmental Science-Nano

Bacteria-Based Materials for Stem Cell Engineering

(2018) Jake J. Hay et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Constructed mathematical model for nanowire electron transfer in microbial fuel cells

(2018) Tzu-Hsuan Lan et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

Biomimetic engineering of conductive curli protein films

(2018) Noémie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Acoustic reporter genes for noninvasive imaging of microorganisms in mammalian hosts

(2018) Raymond W. Bourdeau et al.   NATURE

Marine Bacteria Provide Lasting Anticorrosion Activity for Steel via Biofilm-Induced Mineralization

(2018) Tao Liu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A sea anemone-inspired small synthetic peptide at sub-ppm concentrations enhanced biofilm mitigation

(2018) Ru Jia et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Bacterial Nanobionics via 3D Printing

(2018) Sudeep Joshi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Programmable and printable Bacillus subtilis biofilms as engineered living materials

(2018) Jiaofang Huang et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Engineering a light-responsive, quorum quenching biofilm to mitigate biofouling on water purification membranes

(2018) Manisha Mukherjee et al.   Science Advances

Microbial recycling cells (MRCs): A new platform of microbial electrochemical technologies based on biocompatible materials, aimed at cycling carbon and nutrients in agro-food systems

(2018) Andrea Goglio et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microbiologically influenced corrosion and current mitigation strategies: A state of the art review

(2018) Ru Jia et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Pseudomonas putida RSS biopassivation of mild steel for long term corrosion inhibition

(2018) M.S. Suma et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

A three-species microbial consortium for power generation

(2017) Yue Liu et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Expressing the Geobacter metallireducens PilA in Geobacter sulfurreducens Yields Pili with Exceptional Conductivity

(2017) Yang Tan et al.   mBio

Engineered probiotic Escherichia coli can eliminate and prevent Pseudomonas aeruginosa gut infection in animal models

(2017) In Young Hwang et al.   Nature Communications

Genetically encoded conductive protein nanofibers secreted by engineered cells

(2017) Ebuzer Kalyoncu et al.   RSC Advances

A Synthetic Circuit for Mercury Bioremediation Using Self-Assembling Functional Amyloids

(2017) Pei Kun R. Tay et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

A Straightforward Approach for 3D Bacterial Printing

(2017) Benjamin A. E. Lehner et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

3D printing of bacteria into functional complex materials

(2017) Manuel Schaffner et al.   Science Advances

Synthetic Saccharomyces cerevisiae -Shewanella oneidensis consortium enables glucose-fed high-performance microbial fuel cell

(2016) Tong Lin et al.   AICHE JOURNAL

Genetic engineering of probiotic Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 for clinical application

(2016) Bingming Ou et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

The biofilm property and its correlationship with high-molecular-weight polyacrylamide degradation in a water injection pipeline of Daqing oilfield

(2016) Cai-Yun Li et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

A synthetic redox biofilm made from metalloprotein–prion domain chimera nanowires

(2016) Lucie Altamura et al.   Nature Chemistry

Synthetic Biogenesis of Bacterial Amyloid Nanomaterials with Tunable Inorganic–Organic Interfaces and Electrical Conductivity

(2016) Urartu Ozgur Safak Seker et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Adhesion mechanisms of curli subunit CsgA to abiotic surfaces

(2016) E. P. DeBenedictis et al.   Science Advances

Living biointerfaces based on non-pathogenic bacteria support stem cell differentiation

(2016) Jake J. Hay et al.   Scientific Reports

Bacillus subtilis Bacteria Generate an Internal Mechanical Force within a Biofilm

(2015) Carine Douarche et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Engineered catalytic biofilms: Site-specific enzyme immobilization ontoE. colicurli nanofibers

(2015) Zsofia Botyanszki et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Investigation of corrosion inhibitory process of marine Vibrio neocaledonicus sp. bacterium for carbon steel

(2015) Masoumeh Moradi et al.   CORROSION SCIENCE

Introducing a novel bacterium, Vibrio neocaledonicus sp., with the highest corrosion inhibition efficiency

(2015) Masoumeh Moradi et al.   ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS

Regulation of biofilm formation by BpfA, BpfD, and BpfG in Shewanella oneidensis

(2015) Guangqi Zhou et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Scale-up of sediment microbial fuel cells

(2014) Timothy Ewing et al.   JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES

Expanding the recombinant protein quality in Lactococcus lactis

(2014) Olivia Cano-Garrido et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Synthesis and patterning of tunable multiscale materials with engineered cells

(2014) Allen Y. Chen et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Biogenic gas nanostructures as ultrasonic molecular reporters

(2014) Mikhail G. Shapiro et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Strong underwater adhesives made by self-assembling multi-protein nanofibres

(2014) Chao Zhong et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Illuminating cell signalling with optogenetic tools

(2014) Doug Tischer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Programmable biofilm-based materials from engineered curli nanofibres

(2014) Peter Q. Nguyen et al.   Nature Communications

Bacterial exopolymeric inhibition of carbon steel corrosion

(2013) M.D. Ghafari et al.   INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION

Uranium removal from a contaminated effluent using a combined microbial and nanoparticle system

(2013) Mar Baiget et al.   New Biotechnology

Evaluation of E. coli biofilm as a protective barrier against microbiologically influenced deterioration of concrete (MICD) under mesophilic temperatures

(2013) S. Soleimani et al.   WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Multifunctional Materials through Modular Protein Engineering

(2012) Rebecca L. DiMarco et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Electromicrobiology

(2012) Derek R. Lovley   Annual Review of Microbiology

From Dusk till Dawn: One-Plasmid Systems for Light-Regulated Gene Expression

(2012) Robert Ohlendorf et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Peptide tag forming a rapid covalent bond to a protein, through engineering a bacterial adhesin

(2012) B. Zakeri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Power production enhancement with a polyaniline modified anode in microbial fuel cells

(2011) Bin Lai et al.   BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS

Lactococci and lactobacilli as mucosal delivery vectors for therapeutic proteins and DNA vaccines

(2011) Luis G Bermúdez-Humarán et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Diversity, biogenesis and function of microbial amyloids

(2011) Luz P. Blanco et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Environmental transcriptome analysis reveals physiological differences between biofilm and planktonic modes of life of the iron oxidizing bacteria Leptospirillum spp. in their natural microbial community

(2010) Mercedes Moreno-Paz et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The biofilm matrix

(2010) Hans-Curt Flemming et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Mini-review: quorum sensing in the marine environment and its relationship to biofouling

(2009) Sergey Dobretsov et al.   BIOFOULING

Pseudomonas aeruginosabiofilms in the respiratory tract of cystic fibrosis patients

(2009) Thomas Bjarnsholt et al.   PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY

LapD is a bis-(3',5')-cyclic dimeric GMP-binding protein that regulates surface attachment by Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1

(2009) P. D. Newell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA