Thermus spp is one of the most wide spread genuses of thermophilic bacteria, with isolates
found in natural as well as in man-made thermal environments. The high growth rates, cell …

Adjustment of the synthesis of abundant protein to the requirements of the cell involves
processes critical to the minimization of energy expenditure. The regulation of S‐layer genes …

Recent metagenomic studies on saltern ponds with intermediate salinities have determined
that their microbial communities are dominated by both Euryarchaeota and halophilic …

Electron microscopy of isolated cell walls of the ancient bacterium Thermus thermophilus
revealed that most of the peptidoglycan (PG) surface, apart from the septal region, was …

The surface (S)-layer gene region of the Gram-positive bacterium Corynebacterium
glutamicum ATCC 14067 was identified on fosmid clones, sequenced and compared with …

Proteins belonging to the Omp85 family are involved in the assembly of β-barrel outer
membrane proteins or in the translocation of proteins across the outer membrane in …

Enzymes from thermophiles are preferred for industrial applications because they generally
show improved tolerance to temperature, pressure, solvents, and pH as compared with …

The nar operon, coding for the respiratory nitrate reductase of Thermus thermophilus (NRT),
encodes a di-heme b-type (NarJ) and a di-heme c-type (NarC) cytochrome. The role of both …

The catalytic hammerhead structure has been found in association with repetitive DNA from
several animals, including salamanders, crickets and schistosomes, and functions to …

Lactobacillus brevis ATCC 8287 possesses a surface (S)-layer protein SlpA, the gene of
which is very efficiently expressed. To study the expression signals of the slpA gene, several …