Four billion years of microbial terpenome evolution

Y Hoshino, L Villanueva - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Terpenoids, also known as isoprenoids, are the largest and most diverse class of organic
compounds in nature and are involved in many membrane-associated cellular processes …

Nitrosopumilus maritimus gen. nov., sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus cobalaminigenes sp. nov., Nitrosopumilus oxyclinae sp. nov., and Nitrosopumilus ureiphilus sp. nov., four marine …

W Qin, KR Heal, R Ramdasi… - … of systematic and …, 2017 - microbiologyresearch.org
Four mesophilic, neutrophilic, and aerobic marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea, designated
strains SCM1T, HCA1T, HCE1T and PS0T, were isolated from a tropical marine fish tank …

In search for the membrane regulators of archaea

M Salvador-Castell, M Tourte, PM Oger - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Membrane regulators such as sterols and hopanoids play a major role in the physiological
and physicochemical adaptation of the different plasmic membranes in Eukarya and …

Chemotaxonomic characterisation of the thaumarchaeal lipidome

FJ Elling, M Könneke, GW Nicol… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Thaumarchaeota are globally distributed and abundant microorganisms occurring in diverse
habitats and thus represent a major source of archaeal lipids. The scope of lipids as …

Influence of ammonia oxidation rate on thaumarchaeal lipid composition and the TEX86 temperature proxy

SJ Hurley, FJ Elling, M Könneke… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Archaeal membrane lipids known as glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) are
the basis of the TEX86 paleotemperature proxy. Because GDGTs preserved in marine …

Unexpected complexity of the ammonia monooxygenase in archaea

LH Hodgskiss, M Melcher, M Kerou, W Chen… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ammonia oxidation, as the first step of nitrification, constitutes a critical process in the global
nitrogen cycle. However, fundamental knowledge of its key enzyme, the copper-dependent …

Methane-and dissolved organic carbon-fueled microbial loop supports a tropical subterranean estuary ecosystem

D Brankovits, JW Pohlman, H Niemann… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Subterranean estuaries extend inland into density-stratified coastal carbonate aquifers
containing a surprising diversity of endemic animals (mostly crustaceans) within a highly …

Daily changes in phytoplankton lipidomes reveal mechanisms of energy storage in the open ocean

KW Becker, JR Collins, BP Durham… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Sunlight is the dominant control on phytoplankton biosynthetic activity, and darkness
deprives them of their primary external energy source. Changes in the biochemical …

A new symbiotic nanoarchaeote (Candidatus Nanoclepta minutus) and its host (Zestosphaera tikiterensis gen. nov., sp. nov.) from a New Zealand hot spring

ES John, Y Liu, M Podar, MB Stott, J Meneghin… - Systematic and applied …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Three thermophilic Nanoarchaeota-Crenarchaeota symbiotic systems have been
described. We obtained another stable anaerobic enrichment culture at 80° C, pH 6.0 from a …

The novel extremely acidophilic, cell-wall-deficient archaeon Cuniculiplasma divulgatum gen. nov., sp. nov. represents a new family, Cuniculiplasmataceae fam. nov., of the …

OV Golyshina, H Lünsdorf… - … of systematic and …, 2016 - microbiologyresearch.org
Two novel cell-wall-less, acidophilic, mesophilic, organotrophic and facultatively anaerobic
archaeal strains were isolated from acidic streamers formed on the surfaces of copper-ore …