Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Order-of-magnitude enhancement in photocurrent generation of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by outer membrane deprivation

  • Shoko Kusama,
  • Seiji Kojima,
  • Ken Kimura,
  • Ginga Shimakawa,
  • Chikahiro Miyake,
  • Kenya Tanaka,
  • Yasuaki Okumura,
  • Shuji Nakanishi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30764-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The low extracellular electron transfer activity hampers the application of cyanobacteria in biophotovoltaics. Here, the authors report an order-of-magnitude enhancement in photocurrent generation of the cyanobacterium by deprivation of the outer cell membrane.