Model organisms for genetics in the domain Archaea: methanogens, halophiles, Thermococcales and Sulfolobales

JA Leigh, SV Albers, H Atomi… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The tree of life is split into three main branches: eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea. Our
knowledge of eukaryotic and bacteria cell biology has been built on a foundation of studies …

Cultivation of halophilic archaea (class Halobacteria) from thalassohaline and athalassohaline environments

HL Cui, ML Dyall-Smith - Marine Life Science & Technology, 2021 - Springer
As a group, the halophilic archaea (class Halobacteria) are the most salt-requiring and salt-
resistant microorganisms within the domain Archaea. Halophilic archaea flourish in …

Unexpected host dependency of Antarctic Nanohaloarchaeota

JN Hamm, S Erdmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
In hypersaline environments, Nanohaloarchaeota (Diapherotrites, Parvarchaeota,
Aenigmarchaeota, Nanoarchaeota, Nanohaloarchaeota [DPANN] superphylum) are thought …

Ribosome profiling in archaea reveals leaderless translation, novel translational initiation sites, and ribosome pausing at single codon resolution

DR Gelsinger, E Dallon, R Reddy… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
High-throughput methods, such as ribosome profiling, have revealed the complexity of
translation regulation in Bacteria and Eukarya with large-scale effects on cellular functions …

Haloferax volcanii for biotechnology applications: challenges, current state and perspectives

RU Haque, F Paradisi, T Allers - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2020 - Springer
Haloferax volcanii is an obligate halophilic archaeon with its origin in the Dead Sea. Simple
laboratory culture conditions and a wide range of genetic tools have made it a model …

Genomic and metabolic analyses reveal antagonistic lanthipeptides in archaea

H Liang, ZM Song, Z Zhong, D Zhang, W Yang, L Zhou… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background Microbes produce diverse secondary metabolites (SMs) such as signaling
molecules and antimicrobials that mediate microbe-microbe interaction. Archaea, the third …

Understanding high-salt and cold adaptation of a polyextremophilic enzyme

R Karan, S Mathew, R Muhammad, DB Bautista… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
The haloarchaeon Halorubrum lacusprofundi is among the few polyextremophilic organisms
capable of surviving in one of the most extreme aquatic environments on Earth, the Deep …

An archaeal histone-like protein regulates gene expression in response to salt stress

S Sakrikar, AK Schmid - Nucleic acids research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Histones, ubiquitous in eukaryotes as DNA-packing proteins, find their evolutionary origins
in archaea. Unlike the characterized histone proteins of a number of methanogenic and …

Bacterioruberin extracts from a genetically modified hyperpigmented Haloferax volcanii strain: antioxidant activity and bioactive properties on sperm cells

L Zalazar, P Pagola, MV Miró, MS Churio… - Journal of applied …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Aims To examine the antioxidant activity of Bacterioruberin (Bctr)‐rich extracts isolated from
a hyperpigmented, genetically modified Haloferax volcanii strain (HVLON3) and to …

Salinibacter: an extremely halophilic bacterium with archaeal properties

A Oren - FEMS microbiology letters, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The existence of large number of a member of the Bacteroidetes in NaCl-saturated brines in
saltern crystallizer ponds was first documented in 1999 based on fluorescence in situ …