PMID- 36206670 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221024 LR - 20221024 IS - 1873-4235 (Electronic) IS - 0956-5663 (Linking) VI - 218 DP - 2022 Dec 15 TI - Reduced graphene oxide increases cells with enlarged outer membrane of Citrifermentans bremense and exopolysaccharides secretion. PG - 114754 LID - S0956-5663(22)00794-1 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.bios.2022.114754 [doi] AB - Conductive carbons can boost anaerobic microbial metabolism by assisting extracellular electron transfer (EET), and their chemistry affects microbial metabolism. Graphene oxide (GO), a chemically oxidized sheet of graphite, has been used in various bioelectrochemical systems, although its mechanism is rarely understood. This study revealed specific metabolic responses to reduced GO (rGO) in an electrogenic strain R4 of Citrifermentans bremense, recently renamed from "Geobacter bremensis," in comparison to that with graphite felt (GF). Specifically, the change in growth from planktonic cells to biofilm with an enlarged outer membrane. The mRNA profile supported the fact that rGO upregulated the 14 genes related to the exopolysaccharides (EPS) secretion and biofilm formation, which is more than that in GF (4 genes). While GF upregulated the 35 genes involved in cell motility, which is more than that in rGO (8 genes). The heme protein profile suggested that both carbons induced similar EET pathways involving OmcA/MtrC and OmcS; however, GO specifically induced PilQ. These findings show that the chemistry of conductive carbon differentiates metabolism, especially affecting cellular morphology or living form, rather than electron transfer metabolism. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Meng, Lingyu AU - Meng L AD - Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. FAU - Xie, Li AU - Xie L AD - Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. FAU - Hirose, Yuu AU - Hirose Y AD - Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan; Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS), Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. FAU - Nishiuchi, Takumi AU - Nishiuchi T AD - Bioscience Core Facility, Research Center for Experimental Modeling of Human Disease, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. FAU - Yoshida, Naoko AU - Yoshida N AD - Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Electronic address: yoshida.naoko@nitech.ac.jp. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20221001 PL - England TA - Biosens Bioelectron JT - Biosensors & bioelectronics JID - 9001289 RN - 0 (graphene oxide) RN - 7782-42-5 (Graphite) RN - 7440-44-0 (Carbon) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - 0 (Hemeproteins) SB - IM MH - *Graphite MH - *Biosensing Techniques MH - Carbon MH - RNA, Messenger MH - *Hemeproteins OTO - NOTNLM OT - Biofilm formation OT - Cell motility OT - Exoelectrogenic bacteria OT - Genome-wide RNA sequencing OT - Graphene oxide COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2022/10/08 06:00 MHDA- 2022/10/25 06:00 CRDT- 2022/10/07 18:22 PHST- 2022/08/07 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/09/16 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/09/23 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/10/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/10/25 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/10/07 18:22 [entrez] AID - S0956-5663(22)00794-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bios.2022.114754 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biosens Bioelectron. 2022 Dec 15;218:114754. doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2022.114754. Epub 2022 Oct 1.