Machinery behind bacterial nanowires discovered

January 16, 2025

I am excited to start the year with a paper about the machinery that assembles bacterial nanowires! Led by the super-talented Cong Shen, Aldo Salazar-Morales, Yangqi Gu, Joey Erwin,  Sibel Ebru Yalcin and team.

A widespread and ancient bacterial machinery assembles cytochrome omcS nanowires essential for extracellular electron transfer. Cell Chemical Biology  32, 1–16, (2025).  Yale Highlight

Check out this short Tweetorial sumarizing key results.