Archaea: a gold mine for topoisomerase diversity

F Garnier, M Couturier, H Débat, M Nadal - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The control of DNA topology is a prerequisite for all the DNA transactions such as DNA
replication, repair, recombination, and transcription. This global control is carried out by …

Topoisomerase I (TOP1) dynamics: conformational transition from open to closed states

DT Takahashi, D Gadelle, K Agama, E Kiselev… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Eukaryotic topoisomerases I (TOP1) are ubiquitous enzymes removing DNA torsional stress.
However, there is little data concerning the three-dimensional structure of TOP1 in the …

Marsarchaeota are an aerobic archaeal lineage abundant in geothermal iron oxide microbial mats

ZJ Jay, JP Beam, M Dlakić, DB Rusch… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The discovery of archaeal lineages is critical to our understanding of the universal tree of life
and evolutionary history of the Earth. Geochemically diverse thermal environments in …

Diversity of Thermophilic Prokaryotes

O Vilhelmsson, MA Sigurbjornsdottir… - Thermophilic Anaerobes …, 2023 - Springer
The term” thermophilic prokaryotes” covers an immense taxonomic and functional diversity
of bacteria and archaea, spanning the length and breadth of the prokaryotic Tree of Life …

Characterization of DNA binding by the isolated N-terminal domain of vaccinia virus DNA topoisomerase IB

B Reed, L Yakovleva, S Shuman, R Ghose - Biochemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Vaccinia TopIB (vTopIB), a 314-amino acid eukaryal-type IB topoisomerase, recognizes and
transesterifies at the DNA sequence 5′-(T/C) CCTT↓, leading to the formation of a …

De discussie die Asgard Archaea voortbrengt over de fylogenetische boom

R Hulst - 2019 - fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl
Er wordt veel gespeculeerd over hoe het leven is ontstaan en wat de eerste organismen
waren. Er bestaat meerdere hypotheses over hoe de fylogenetische boom in de oorsprong …