Emerging facets of prokaryotic glycosylation

C Schäffer, P Messner - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Glycosylation of proteins is one of the most prevalent post-translational modifications
occurring in nature, with a wide repertoire of biological implications. Pathways for the main …

Versatile cell surface structures of archaea

P Chaudhury, TEF Quax, SV Albers - Molecular microbiology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Archaea are ubiquitously present in nature and colonize environments with broadly varying
growth conditions. Several surface appendages support their colonization of new habitats. A …

Flagellar energy costs across the tree of life

PE Schavemaker, M Lynch - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Flagellar-driven motility grants unicellular organisms the ability to gather more food and
avoid predators, but the energetic costs of construction and operation of flagella are …

An archaellum filament composed of two alternating subunits

L Gambelli, MN Isupov, R Conners, M McLaren… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Archaea use a molecular machine, called the archaellum, to swim. The archaellum consists
of an ATP-powered intracellular motor that drives the rotation of an extracellular filament …

Structure and in situ organisation of the Pyrococcus furiosus archaellum machinery

B Daum, J Vonck, A Bellack, P Chaudhury, R Reichelt… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
The archaellum is the macromolecular machinery that Archaea use for propulsion or surface
adhesion, enabling them to proliferate and invade new territories. The molecular …

A comprehensive history of motility and Archaellation in Archaea

KF Jarrell, SV Albers, JNS Machado - FEMS microbes, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Each of the three Domains of life, Eukarya, Bacteria and Archaea, have swimming structures
that were all originally called flagella, despite the fact that none were evolutionarily related to …

Lysine-grafted MCM-41 silica as an antibacterial biomaterial

MF Villegas, L Garcia-Uriostegui, O Rodríguez… - Bioengineering, 2017 - mdpi.com
This paper proposes a facile strategy for the zwitterionization of bioceramics that is based on
the direct incorporation of l-lysine amino acid via the ε-amino group onto mesoporous MCM …

Towards elucidating the rotary mechanism of the archaellum machinery

J Nuno de Sousa Machado, SV Albers… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Motile archaea swim by means of a molecular machine called the archaellum. This structure
consists of a filament attached to a membrane-embedded motor. The archaellum is found …

[PDF][PDF] Exploring prokaryotic transcription, operon structures, rRNA maturation and modifications using Nanopore-based native RNA sequencing

F Grünberger, R Knüppel, M Jüttner, M Fenk, A Borst… - BioRxiv, 2020 - researchgate.net
The prokaryotic transcriptome is shaped by transcriptional and posttranscriptional events
that 35 define the characteristics of an RNA, including transcript boundaries, the base …

Next Generation DNA-Seq and Differential RNA-Seq Allow Re-annotation of the Pyrococcus furiosus DSM 3638 Genome and Provide Insights Into Archaeal …

F Grünberger, R Reichelt, B Bunk, C Spröer… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Pyrococcus furiosus DSM 3638 is a model organism for hyperthermophilic archaea with an
optimal growth temperature near 100° C. The genome was sequenced about 18 years ago …