A biofilm anode acclimated with acetate, acetate+methane, and methane growth media for over three years produced a steady current density of 1.6-2.3 mA/m^2 in a microbial electrochemical cell (MxC) fed with methane as the sole electron donor. Geobacter was the dominant genus for the bacterial domain (93%) in the biofilm anode, while methanogens (Methanocorpusculum labreanum and Methanosaeta concilii) accounted for 82% of the total archaeal clones in the biofilm. A fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) image clearly showed a biofilm of bacteria and archaea, supporting a syntrophic interaction between them for performing anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) in the biofilm anode. Measured cumulative coulombs correlated linearly to the methane-gas concentration in the range of 10% to 99.97% (R^2 ≥ 0.99) when the measurement was sustained for at least 50 min. Thus, cumulative coulombs over 50 min. could be used to quantify the methane concentration in gas samples. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Gao, Y., H. Ryu, B. Rittmann, A. Hussain, and H. Lee. Quantification of the methane concentration using anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to extracellular electron transfer. Bioresource Technology. Elsevier Online, New York, NY, USA, 241: 979-984, (2017).

These data are bacterial 16S rRNA sequences and a taxonomic summary table for biofilm samples from the bio-reactors. The data may provide background/supporting information for other researchers who have a similar experimental plan with a microbial electrochemical cell reactor. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Santodomingo, J., H. Lee, B. Dhar, J. An, B. Rittmann, H. Ren, and J. Chae. The Roles of Biofilm Conductivity and Donor Substrate Kinetics in a Mixed-Culture Biofilm Anod. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, USA, 50(23): 12799-12807, (2016).

A-3txf_sequence summary.xksx: Abundance of contigs or unique sequences for each biofilm samples from anodes in the MEC reactor Hodon Waterloo final_fasta_working.docx: Raw sequences with their identification numbers RNA S1_MEC.docx: Representative sequences with their ID number and taxonomy. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Santodomingo, J., H. Ryu, B. Dhar, and H. Lee. Ohmic resistance affects microbial community and electrochemical kinetics in a multi-anode microbial electrochemical cell. JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA, 331: 315-321, (2016).

Lanthanide binding tags (LBTs) have been engineered onto native Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacterial surfaces to enhance extraction and recovery of rare earth elements (REEs). Three strains of E. coli were studied: (1) the native E. coli surface, (2) a mutant E. coli surface with hindered, non-binding lanthanide binding tags, and (3) an LBT E. coli surface with fully functioning lanthanide binding tags. A three discrete site, constant capacitance surface complexation modeling approach was taken in studying these strains with an ultimate goal of comparing site type affinities to the model rare earth, Terbium. Our results show a possible increase in native carboxyl functional groups when the LBTs are overexpressed on the cell surface. LBTs are confirmed to have a higher stability constant with Terbium than that of the native functional groups. Incorporation of LBTs into the E. coli cell wall poses two major benefits: (1) the presence of a high-affinity, low-capacity LBT site for selective Terbium binding at low metal loading regions, and (2) a lower-affinity carboxyl site that increases the sorption capacity of the native bacterial surface during sorption at higher metal loading regions.

This submission presents the weekly geochemistry data of the long-term flow test performed within EGS Collab Experiment 1 from early 2019 to early 2020. The fluids from each producing borehole/interval (PI, PB, PDT and PST) along with the injectate were sampled roughly weekly from April 2019 to January 2020 for geochemistry analysis. The geochemical measurement was part of a long-term microbial profiling project (see details in the PNAS paper linked below). Additional background and methodologies are available in the PNAS paper linked bellow.

Data corresponding to the figures in the paper. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Xing, Y., A. Ellis, M. Magnuson, and W. Harper. Adsorption of bacteriophage MS2 to colloids: Kinetics and particle interactions. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, 585: 124099, (2020).

H2O2_COD_EPA: Measurements of hydrogen peroxide and COD concentrations for water samples from the MEC reactors. MEC_acclimation: raw data for current and voltage of the anode in the MEC reactor. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Sim, J., J. An, E. Elbeshbishy, R. Hodon, and H. Lee. Characterization and optimization of cathodic conditions for H2O2 synthesis in microbial electrochemical cells. Bioresource Technology. Elsevier Online, New York, NY, USA, 195: 31-36, (2015).

Acetylene (C2H2) is a molecule rarely found in nature, with few known natural sources, but acetylenotrophic microorganisms can use acetylene as their primary carbon and energy source. As of 2018 there were 15 known strains of aerobic and anaerobic acetylenotrophs, however we hypothesized that there may be yet unrecognized diversity of acetylenotrophs in nature. In this study, we expanded this diversity by isolating an aerobic acetylenotroph, Bradyrhizobium sp. strain I71, from trichloroethene (TCE)-contaminated soils undergoing bioremediation. TCE-contaminated soils from the NASA Ames Research Center in California were used to establish soil microcosms with acetylene as the primary carbon substrate and acetylene uptake was tracked over time and reported in T1_soil_microcosm_v2.0.csv. DNA was extracted from soil microcosm samples for microbial community analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing; the resulting operational taxonomic units are presented in T2_soil_OTU_v2.0.csv. Bradyrhizobium sp. strain I71 was isolated from the soil microcosms and acetylene uptake and cell growth data for the isolate over time are shown in T3_soil_isolate_v2.0.csv. Nitrogen fixation assays for the pure culture of Bradyrhizobium sp. strain I71 are reported in T4_N2_fixation_v2.0.csv. Acetylene concentrations and cell densities from acetylenotrophic and heterotrophic growth assays for Bradyrhizobium sp. strain I71 are reported in T5_GrowthCurve_v2.0.csv

Acetylene (C2H2) is a molecule rarely found in nature, with few known natural sources, but acetylenotrophic microorganisms can use acetylene as their primary carbon and energy source. As of 2018 there were 15 known strains of aerobic and anaerobic acetylenotrophs, however we hypothesized that there may be yet unrecognized diversity of acetylenotrophs in nature. In this study, we expanded this diversity by isolating an aerobic acetylenotroph, Bradyrhizobium sp. strain I71, from trichloroethene (TCE)-contaminated soils undergoing bioremediation. TCE-contaminated soils from the NASA Ames Research Center in California were used to establish soil microcosms with acetylene as the primary carbon substrate and acetylene uptake was tracked over time and reported in T1_soil_microcosm_v2.0.csv. DNA was extracted from soil microcosm samples for microbial community analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing; the resulting operational taxonomic units are presented in T2_soil_OTU_v2.0.csv. Bradyrhizobium sp. strain I71 was isolated from the soil microcosms and acetylene uptake and cell growth data for the isolate over time are shown in T3_soil_isolate_v2.0.csv. Nitrogen fixation assays for the pure culture of Bradyrhizobium sp. strain I71 are reported in T4_N2_fixation_v2.0.csv. Acetylene concentrations and cell densities from acetylenotrophic and heterotrophic growth assays for Bradyrhizobium sp. strain I71 are reported in T5_GrowthCurve_v2.0.csv