N-linked glycosylation in Archaea: a structural, functional, and genetic analysis

KF Jarrell, Y Ding, BH Meyer, SV Albers… - Microbiology and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY N-glycosylation of proteins is one of the most prevalent posttranslational
modifications in nature. Accordingly, a pathway with shared commonalities is found in all …

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 …

Proteomics and comparative genomics of Nitrososphaera viennensis reveal the core genome and adaptations of archaeal ammonia oxidizers

M Kerou, P Offre, L Valledor, SS Abby… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are among the most abundant microorganisms and key
players in the global nitrogen and carbon cycles. They share a common energy metabolism …

Phylogenomic analyses and molecular signatures for the class Halobacteria and its two major clades: a proposal for division of the class Halobacteria into an emended order Halobacteriales and two new orders …

RS Gupta, S Naushad, S Baker - International Journal of …, 2015 - microbiologyresearch.org
The Halobacteria constitute one of the largest groups within the Archaea. The hierarchical
relationship among members of this large class, which comprises a single order and a …

Systematics of haloarchaea and biotechnological potential of their hydrolytic enzymes

MA Amoozegar, M Siroosi, S Atashgahi… - …, 2017 - microbiologyresearch.org
Halophilic archaea, also referred to as haloarchaea, dominate hypersaline environments. To
survive under such extreme conditions, haloarchaea and their enzymes have evolved to …

[HTML][HTML] Archaeal S-layers: overview and current state of the art

T Rodrigues-Oliveira, A Belmok… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In contrast to bacteria, all archaea possess cell walls lacking peptidoglycan and a number of
different cell envelope components have also been described. A paracrystalline protein …

Haloarchaea, excellent candidates for removing pollutants from hypersaline wastewater

J Li, Y Gao, H Dong, GP Sheng - Trends in Biotechnology, 2022 - cell.com
Hypersaline wastewater is difficult to treat due to the inhibition of salt stress on microbes'
viability and metabolic capabilities. Haloarchaea, native microorganisms that thrive in …

Extreme sweetness: protein glycosylation in archaea

J Eichler - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013 - nature.com
Although N-glycosylation was first reported in archaea almost 40 years ago, detailed
insights into this process have become possible only recently, with the availability of …

[HTML][HTML] Archaeal type IV pili and their involvement in biofilm formation

M Pohlschroder, RN Esquivel - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Type IV pili are ancient proteinaceous structures present on the cell surface of species in
nearly all bacterial and archaeal phyla. These filaments, which are required for a diverse …

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 …