Strangers in the archaeal world: osmostress-responsive biosynthesis of ectoine and hydroxyectoine by the marine thaumarchaeonNitrosopumilus maritimus

The influence of salinity on the abundance, transcriptional activity, and diversity of AOA and AOB in an estuarine sediment: a microcosm study

(2015) Yan Zhang et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

The evolution of bacterial mechanosensitive channels

(2015) Ian R. Booth et al.   CELL CALCIUM

MscCG from Corynebacterium glutamicum: functional significance of the C-terminal domain

(2015) Michael Becker et al.   EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS

Influence of temperature, pH, and salinity on membrane lipid composition and TEX 86 of marine planktonic thaumarchaeal isolates

(2015) Felix J. Elling et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Physiological and genomic characterization of two novel marine thaumarchaeal strains indicates niche differentiation

(2015) Barbara Bayer et al.   ISME Journal

Horizontal gene transfer: building the web of life

(2015) Shannon M. Soucy et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Coupling of diversification and pH adaptation during the evolution of terrestrial Thaumarchaeota

(2015) Cécile Gubry-Rangin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contribution of RpoS to metabolic efficiency and ectoines synthesis during the osmo- and heat-stress response in the halophilic bacteriumChromohalobacter salexigens

(2015) Manuel Salvador et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

The complete genome sequence of the rumen methanogen Methanobacterium formicicum BRM9

(2015) William J Kelly et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

Bacterial mechanosensitive channels: progress towards an understanding of their roles in cell physiology

(2014) Ian R Booth   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

The hydroxyectoine gene cluster of the non-halophilic acidophile Acidiphilium cryptum

(2014) Katharina D. Moritz et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Pangenome Evidence for Extensive Interdomain Horizontal Transfer Affecting Lineage Core and Shell Genes in Uncultured Planktonic Thaumarchaeota and Euryarchaeota

(2014) Philippe Deschamps et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Effects of growth phase on the membrane lipid composition of the thaumarchaeon Nitrosopumilus maritimus and their implications for archaeal lipid distributions in the marine environment

(2014) Felix J. Elling et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Crystal Structure of the Ectoine Hydroxylase, a Snapshot of the Active Site

(2014) Astrid Höppner et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The cytoplasmic cage domain of the mechanosensitive channel MscS is a sensor of macromolecular crowding

(2014) Ian Rowe et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY

Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria

(2014) Shijulal Nelson-Sathi et al.   NATURE

SWISS-MODEL: modelling protein tertiary and quaternary structure using evolutionary information

(2014) Marco Biasini et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The First Prokaryotic Trehalose Synthase Complex Identified in the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Thermoproteus tenax

(2014) Melanie Zaparty et al.   PLoS One

Biochemical Properties of Ectoine Hydroxylases from Extremophiles and Their Wider Taxonomic Distribution among Microorganisms

(2014) Nils Widderich et al.   PLoS One

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea use the most energy-efficient aerobic pathway for CO2 fixation

(2014) M. Konneke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetically Driven Sequencing of Extremely Halophilic Archaea Reveals Strategies for Static and Dynamic Osmo-response

(2014) Erin A. Becker et al.   PLoS Genetics

Glass-forming property of hydroxyectoine is the cause of its superior function as a desiccation protectant

(2014) Christoph Tanne et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

An experimental point of view on hydration/solvation in halophilic proteins

(2014) Romain Talon et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Archaea in Biogeochemical Cycles

(2013) Pierre Offre et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Transcriptional Response of the Archaeal Ammonia Oxidizer Nitrosopumilus maritimus to Low and Environmentally Relevant Ammonia Concentrations

(2013) Tatsunori Nakagawa et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

MscS-like Mechanosensitive Channels in Plants and Microbes

(2013) Margaret E. Wilson et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Glutamate efflux mediated by Corynebacterium glutamicum MscCG, Escherichia coli MscS, and their derivatives

(2013) Michael Becker et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Electrophysiological Characterization of the Mechanosensitive Channel MscCG in Corynebacterium glutamicum

(2013) Yoshitaka Nakayama et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Trehalose/2-sulfotrehalose biosynthesis and glycine-betaine uptake are widely spread mechanisms for osmoadaptation in the Halobacteriales

(2013) Noha H Youssef et al.   ISME Journal

Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Structure-Guided Mutagenesis Provide Insight into the Architecture of the Catalytic Core of the Ectoine Hydroxylase

(2013) Nils Widderich et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The genome portal of the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute: 2014 updates

(2013) Henrik Nordberg et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Life at high salt concentrations, intracellular KCl concentrations, and acidic proteomes

(2013) Aharon Oren   Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial Mechanosensitive Channels—MscS: Evolution's Solution to Creating Sensitivity in Function

(2012) James H. Naismith et al.   Annual Review of Biophysics

Physiology and Diversity of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea

(2012) David A. Stahl et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Characterization of three novel mechanosensitive channel activities inEscherichia coli

(2012) Michelle D. Edwards et al.   Channels

The MscS and MscL Families of Mechanosensitive Channels Act as Microbial Emergency Release Valves

(2012) Ian R. Booth et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Osmotic Control of opuA Expression in Bacillus subtilis and Its Modulation in Response to Intracellular Glycine Betaine and Proline Pools

(2012) T. Hoffmann et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

An Extremely Halophilic Proteobacterium Combines a Highly Acidic Proteome with a Low Cytoplasmic Potassium Content

(2012) Ratnakar Deole et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The Thaumarchaeota: an emerging view of their phylogeny and ecophysiology

(2011) Michael Pester et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

A Specialized Aspartokinase Enhances the Biosynthesis of the Osmoprotectants Ectoine and Hydroxyectoine in Pseudomonas stutzeriA1501

(2011) N. Stoveken et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Osmotically Controlled Synthesis of the Compatible Solute Proline Is Critical for Cellular Defense of Bacillus subtilis against High Osmolarity

(2011) J. Brill et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Interactive Tree Of Life v2: online annotation and display of phylogenetic trees made easy

(2011) I. Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genome of a Low-Salinity Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon Determined by Single-Cell and Metagenomic Analysis

(2011) Paul C. Blainey et al.   PLoS One

Mechanosensitive Channels: What Can They Do and How Do They Do It?

(2011) Elizabeth S. Haswell et al.   STRUCTURE

Bacterial Osmoregulation: A Paradigm for the Study of Cellular Homeostasis

(2010) Janet M. Wood   Annual Review of Microbiology

Genome-Driven Investigation of Compatible Solute Biosynthesis Pathways of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae and Their Contribution to Water Stress Tolerance

(2010) M. Kurz et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Metabolomic Characterization of the Salt Stress Response in Streptomyces coelicolor

(2010) S. Kol et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The properties and contribution of the Corynebacterium glutamicum MscS variant to fine-tuning of osmotic adaptation

(2010) Kirsten Börngen et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

The effect of compatible solute ectoines on the structural organization of lipid monolayer and bilayer membranes

(2010) Rakesh Kumar Harishchandra et al.   BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Ectoines in cell stress protection: Uses and biotechnological production

(2010) José M. Pastor et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Compatible solute biosynthesis in cyanobacteria

(2010) Stephan Klähn et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Thermodynamic limits to microbial life at high salt concentrations

(2010) Aharon Oren   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity, biological roles and biosynthetic pathways for sugar-glycerate containing compatible solutes in bacteria and archaea

(2010) Nuno Empadinhas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A blueprint of ectoine metabolism from the genome of the industrial producer Halomonas elongata DSM 2581T

(2010) Karin Schwibbert et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Gradual Adaptive Changes of a Protein Facing High Salt Concentrations

(2010) Nicolas Coquelle et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Nitrosopumilus maritimus genome reveals unique mechanisms for nitrification and autotrophy in globally distributed marine crenarchaea

(2010) C. B. Walker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cohesion Group Approach for Evolutionary Analysis of Aspartokinase, an Enzyme That Feeds a Branched Network of Many Biochemical Pathways

(2009) C.-C. Lo et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Ammonia oxidation kinetics determine niche separation of nitrifying Archaea and Bacteria

(2009) Willm Martens-Habbena et al.   NATURE

Synthesis and Uptake of the Compatible Solutes Ectoine and 5-Hydroxyectoine by Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) in Response to Salt and Heat Stresses

(2008) J. Bursy et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Synthesis of the Compatible Solute Ectoine in Virgibacillus pantothenticus Is Triggered by High Salinity and Low Growth Temperature

(2008) A. U. Kuhlmann et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Growth phase-dependent switch in osmolyte strategy in a moderate halophile: ectoine is a minor osmolyte but major stationary phase solute in Halobacillus halophilus

(2008) Stephan H. Saum et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Shifts in the relative abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea across physicochemical gradients in a subterranean estuary

(2008) Alyson E. Santoro et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota

(2008) Céline Brochier-Armanet et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Structure of an Open Form of an E. coli Mechanosensitive Channel at 3.45 A Resolution

(2008) W. Wang et al.   SCIENCE