The Archaeal Cell Cycle

A Cezanne, S Foo, YW Kuo… - Annual Review of Cell and …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Since first identified as a separate domain of life in the 1970s, it has become clear that
archaea differ profoundly from both eukaryotes and bacteria. In this review, we look across …

Cell-to-cell interactions revealed by cryo-tomography of a DPANN co-culture system

MD Johnson, DC Shepherd, HD Sakai… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
DPANN is a widespread and diverse group of archaea characterized by their small size,
reduced genome, limited metabolic pathways, and symbiotic existence. Known DPANN …

CASP15 cryo‐EM protein and RNA targets: Refinement and analysis using experimental maps

T Mulvaney, RC Kretsch, L Elliott… - Proteins: Structure …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
CASP assessments primarily rely on comparing predicted coordinates with experimental
reference structures. However, experimental structures by their nature are only models …

Architecture of the Sap S-layer of Bacillus anthracis revealed by integrative structural biology

A Sogues, K Leigh, EV Halingstad… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Bacillus anthracis is a spore-forming gram-positive bacterium responsible for anthrax, an
infectious disease with a high mortality rate and a target of concern due to bioterrorism and …

Composition and in situ structure of the Methanospirillum hungatei cell envelope and surface layer

H Wang, J Zhang, S Liao, AM Henstra, D Leon… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Archaea share genomic similarities with Eukarya and cellular architectural similarities with
Bacteria, though archaeal and bacterial surface layers (S-layers) differ. Using cellular cryo …

Cell surface architecture of the cultivated DPANN archaeon Nanobdella aerobiophila

S Kato, YO Tahara, Y Nishimura, K Uematsu… - Journal of …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
The DPANN archaeal clade includes obligately ectosymbiotic species. Their cell surfaces
potentially play an important role in the symbiotic interaction between the ectosymbionts and …

Towards a molecular picture of the archaeal cell surface

MC Gaines, MN Isupov, M McLaren, CL Mollat… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Archaea produce various protein filaments with specialised functions. While some archaea
produce only one type of filament, the archaeal model species Sulfolobus acidocaldarius …

Microbial hauberks: composition and function of surface layer proteins in gammaproteobacterial methanotrophs

R Hamilton, W Gebbie, C Bowman… - Applied and …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Many species of proteobacterial methane-consuming bacteria (methanotrophs) form a
hauberk-like envelope represented by a surface (S-) layer protein (SLP) matrix. While …

[HTML][HTML] Membraneless channels sieve cations in ammonia-oxidizing marine archaea

A von Kügelgen, CK Cassidy, S van Dorst, LL Pagani… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Nitrosopumilus maritimus is an ammonia-oxidizing archaeon that is crucial to the global
nitrogen cycle,. A critical step for nitrogen oxidation is the entrapment of ammonium ions …

To split or not to split: CASP15 targets and their processing into tertiary structure evaluation units

A Kryshtafovych, DJ Rigden - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Processing of CASP15 targets into evaluation units (EUs) and assigning them to
evolutionary‐based prediction classes is presented in this study. The targets were first split …