An Ultra-Stable Protein Nanowire Made by Bacteria Provides Clues to Combating Climate Change
Bacteria deep in the soil need "nanowires" made up of cytochrome OmcZ to export electrons to extracellular acceptors in order to survive without oxygen. Our cryo-EM OmcZ architecture explains how bacteria make nanowires on demand and why only OmcZ nanowires show extremely high electron conductivity.
