RNA communication between organisms inspires innovative eco-friendly strategies for disease control

R Hamby, Q Cai, H Jin - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Evidence shows that RNA trafficking is a key communication mechanism across kingdoms
and species, but how RNAs are secreted and trafficked and how they function within the …

The last universal common ancestor of ribosome-encoding organisms: portrait of LUCA

P Forterre - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2024 - Springer
The existence of LUCA in the distant past is the logical consequence of the binary
mechanism of cell division. The biosphere in which LUCA and contemporaries were living …

[HTML][HTML] Global distribution and diversity of haloarchaeal pL6-family plasmids

M Dyall-Smith, F Pfeiffer - Genes, 2024 - mdpi.com
Australian isolates of Haloquadratum walsbyi, a square-shaped haloarchaeon, often harbor
small cryptic plasmids of the pL6-family, approximately 6 kb in size, and five examples have …

Provirus deletion from Haloferax volcanii affects motility, stress resistance and CRISPR RNA expression

N Di Cianni, S Bolsinger, J Brendel, M Raabe… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Haloferax volcanii harbours four putative proviruses: Halfvol1, Halfvol2, Halfvol3 and
Halfvol4. In this study we successfully deleted all four provirus genomes, demonstrating, that …

Cell division protein A (CdpA) assembles and anchors the two FtsZ rings at midcell in haloarchaea

Y Liao, VD Shinde, D Hu, Z Xu, B Soderstrom… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Many archaea appear to divide through the coordinated activities of two distinct FtsZ
homologues, FtsZ1 and FtsZ2, and another bacterial cell division homologue, SepF, which …