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Short Communication
Title: Identification and topographical characterization of microbial
nanowires in Nostoc punctiforme
Journal Name: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Authors:
Sandeep Sure · Angel AJ Torriero · Aditya Gaur · Lu Hua Li · Ying Chen ·
ChandrakantTripathi · AlokAdholeya · M Leigh Ackland · Mandira Kochar
Mandira Kochar(corresponding author)
TERI-Deakin Nanobiotechnology Centre, TERI Gram, The Energy and Resources
Institute, GualPahari, Gurgaon-Faridabad Road, Gurgaon, Haryana 122 001, India
Email: mandira.malhotra@gmail.comor mandira.kochar@teri.res.in;
Tel. (+91)9711963966; Fax. +9111 24682144
Sandeep Sure·Aditya Gaur·ChandrakantTripathi·AlokAdholeya·Mandira Kochar
TERI-Deakin Nanobiotechnology Centre, TERI Gram, The Energy and Resources
Institute, GualPahari, Gurgaon-Faridabad Road, Gurgaon, Haryana 122 001, India
Angel AJ Torriero·M Leigh Ackland
Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood
Highway, Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria 3125, Australia.
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Lu Hua Li·Ying Chen
Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Geelong Waurn Ponds
Campus, Geelong,Victoria 3216, Australia.
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Fig. S1 TEM analysis of Nostoc punctiforme short/thin and long/thick PLS
(denoted by closed and open arrow, respectively). (a) Long/thick PLS observed
along with short/thin PLS in N. punctiforme, (b) Magnified image of a in the
reverse direction showing closely spaced long/thick PLS and short/thin PLS, (c)
Magnified image of b showing short/thin PLS; (d-e) N. Punctiforme cells showing
long/thick PLS along with short/thin PLS
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Fig.S2 I-V graph of extracellular material (ECM) attached to the PLS (inset of
Fig. 3B). Horizontal noisy line represents non-conductive behaviour of ECM.
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Fig.S3 Current map images of (a) short/thin and (b) long/thick PLS from N.
punctiforme grown under normal culture conditions, at +0.2V, (c) Current map
images of I-V spectra of short/thin PLS from N. punctiforme cells grown under
continuous light intensity, at +0.2V.