Vishok Srikanth

Correction to: Nature Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01315-5, published online 2 February 2023 In the version of the article initially published, in the second paragraph of the Results, the text now reading “(~7% strands and ~21% turns)” has been corrected from “(~21% strands and ~7% turns)” in the HTML and PDF versions of the article. About this article Gu, Y., Guberman-Pfeffer, M.J., Srikanth, V. et al.

Abstract Extracellular electron transfer (EET) via microbial nanowires drives globally-important environmental processes and biotechnological applications for bioenergy, bioremediation, and bioelectronics.

Abstract OmcZ nanowires produced by Geobacter species have high electron conductivity (>30 S cm−1). Of 111 cytochromes present in G. sulfurreducens, OmcZ is the only known nanowire-forming cytochrome essential for the formation of high-current-density biofilms that require long-distance (>10 µm) extracellular electron transport. However, the mechanisms underlying OmcZ nanowire assembly and high conductivity are unknown.