A novel family of tyrosine integrases encoded by the temperate pleolipovirus SNJ2

Mechanisms of gene flow in archaea

(2017) Alexander Wagner et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Construction of Expression Shuttle Vectors for the Haloarchaeon Natrinema sp. J7 Based on Its Chromosomal Origins of Replication

(2017) Yuchen Wang et al.   ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Flipping chromosomes in deep-sea archaea

(2017) Matteo Cossu et al.   PLoS Genetics

Xer Site Specific Recombination: Double and Single Recombinase Systems

(2017) Fabio Castillo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A plasmid from an Antarctic haloarchaeon uses specialized membrane vesicles to disseminate and infect plasmid-free cells

(2017) Susanne Erdmann et al.   Nature Microbiology

Cre Recombinase and Other Tyrosine Recombinases

(2016) Gretchen Meinke et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Identification, Characterization, and Application of the Replicon Region of the Halophilic Temperate Sphaerolipovirus SNJ1

(2016) Yuchen Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Bipartite Network Analysis of the Archaeal Virosphere: Evolutionary Connections between Viruses and Capsidless Mobile Elements

(2016) Jaime Iranzo et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

(2016) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

CDD/SPARCLE: functional classification of proteins via subfamily domain architectures

(2016) Aron Marchler-Bauer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Integrative and Conjugative Elements (ICEs): What They Do and How They Work

(2015) Christopher M. Johnson et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Pleolipoviridae, a newly proposed family comprising archaeal pleomorphic viruses with single-stranded or double-stranded DNA genomes

(2015) Maija K. Pietilä et al.   ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY

Site-Specific Recombination by SSV2 Integrase: Substrate Requirement and Domain Functions

(2015) Zhengyan Zhan et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Identification and characterization of SNJ2, the first temperate pleolipovirus integrating into the genome of the SNJ1-lysogenic archaeal strain

(2015) Ying Liu et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A strange family, or how a new pleolipovirus reveals its friends and relatives

(2015) Mike Dyall-Smith et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A novel family of integrases associated with prophages and genomic islands integrated within the tRNA-dihydrouridine synthase A (dusA) gene

(2015) Daniel N. Farrugia et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Dark matter in archaeal genomes: a rich source of novel mobile elements, defense systems and secretory complexes

(2014) Kira S. Makarova et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

New Applications for Phage Integrases

(2014) Paul C.M. Fogg et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Serine integrase chimeras with activity in E. coli and HeLa cells

(2014) A. P. Farruggio et al.   Biology Open

Analysis of the Transcriptional Regulator GlpR, Promoter Elements, and Posttranscriptional Processing Involved in Fructose-Induced Activation of the Phosphoenolpyruvate-Dependent Sugar Phosphotransferase System in Haloferax mediterranei

(2013) Lei Cai et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Insights into Dynamics of Mobile Genetic Elements in Hyperthermophilic Environments from Five New Thermococcus Plasmids

(2013) Mart Krupovic et al.   PLoS One

High level of intergenera gene exchange shapes the evolution of haloarchaea in an isolated Antarctic lake

(2013) M. Z. DeMaere et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structural and functional characterization of the C-terminal catalytic domain of SSV1 integrase

(2012) Zhengyan Zhan et al.   ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Recombination between RNA viruses and plasmids might have played a central role in the origin and evolution of small DNA viruses

(2012) Mart Krupovic   BIOESSAYS

Virion Architecture Unifies Globally Distributed Pleolipoviruses Infecting Halophilic Archaea

(2012) M. K. Pietila et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Related haloarchaeal pleomorphic viruses contain different genome types

(2012) Ana Senčilo et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Temperate membrane-containing halophilic archaeal virus SNJ1 has a circular dsDNA genome identical to that of plasmid pHH205

(2012) Ziqian Zhang et al.   VIROLOGY

Site-specific recombinases as tools for heterologous gene integration

(2011) Nobutaka Hirano et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Haloarchaeal myovirus φCh1 harbours a phase variation system for the production of protein variants with distinct cell surface adhesion specificities

(2011) R. Klein et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A phage protein that binds φC31 integrase to switch its directionality

(2011) Thanafez Khaleel et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative Analysis of the Mosaic Genomes of Tailed Archaeal Viruses and Proviruses Suggests Common Themes for Virion Architecture and Assembly with Tailed Viruses of Bacteria

(2010) Mart Krupovič et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Requirements for catalysis in the Cre recombinase active site

(2010) Bryan Gibb et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evidence for a Xer/dif System for Chromosome Resolution in Archaea

(2010) Diego Cortez et al.   PLoS Genetics

trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

(2009) S. Capella-Gutierrez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Viral biogeography revealed by signatures inSulfolobus islandicusgenomes

(2009) Nicole L. Held et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

An ssDNA virus infecting archaea: a new lineage of viruses with a membrane envelope

(2009) Maija K. Pietilä et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Breaking the Code of DNA Binding Specificity of TAL-Type III Effectors

(2009) J. Boch et al.   SCIENCE