New Mode of Energy Metabolism in the Seventh Order of Methanogens as Revealed by Comparative Genome Analysis of “Candidatus Methanoplasma termitum”

Comparative genomics highlights the unique biology of Methanomassiliicoccales, a Thermoplasmatales-related seventh order of methanogenic archaea that encodes pyrrolysine

(2014) Guillaume Borrel et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A re-evaluation of the archaeal membrane lipid biosynthetic pathway

(2014) Laura Villanueva et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Unique Characteristics of the Pyrrolysine System in the 7th Order of Methanogens: Implications for the Evolution of a Genetic Code Expansion Cassette

(2014) Guillaume Borrel et al.   ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL

The Alternative Route to Heme in the Methanogenic ArchaeonMethanosarcina barkeri

(2014) Melanie Kühner et al.   ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Evolution of Na+and H+bioenergetics in methanogenic archaea

(2013) Katharina Schlegel et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Functional role of the MrpA- and MrpD-homologous protein subunits in enzyme complexes evolutionary related to respiratory chain complex I

(2013) Vamsi K. Moparthi et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Bioenergetics and anaerobic respiratory chains of aceticlastic methanogens

(2013) Cornelia Welte et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Phylogenomic Data Support a Seventh Order of Methylotrophic Methanogens and Provide Insights into the Evolution of Methanogenesis

(2013) Guillaume Borrel et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published

(2013) A. Oren et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Candidatus Methanogranum caenicola: a Novel Methanogen from the Anaerobic Digested Sludge, and Proposal of Methanomassiliicoccaceae fam. nov. and Methanomassiliicoccales ord. nov., for a Methanogenic Lineage of the Class Thermoplasmata

(2013) Takao Iino et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Predominant archaea in marine sediments degrade detrital proteins

(2013) Karen G. Lloyd et al.   NATURE

Data, information, knowledge and principle: back to metabolism in KEGG

(2013) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Poles Apart: Arctic and Antarctic Octadecabacter strains Share High Genome Plasticity and a New Type of Xanthorhodopsin

(2013) John Vollmers et al.   PLoS One

Evidence for glycoprotein transport into complex plastids

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

Methylotrophic methanogenic Thermoplasmata implicated in reduced methane emissions from bovine rumen

(2013) Morten Poulsen et al.   Nature Communications

Microbial diversity in the deep-subsurface hydrothermal aquifer feeding the giant gypsum crystal-bearing Naica Mine, Mexico

(2013) Marie Ragon et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

“Methanoplasmatales,” Thermoplasmatales-Related Archaea in Termite Guts and Other Environments, Are the Seventh Order of Methanogens

(2012) Kristina Paul et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a methanogenic archaeon isolated from human faeces

(2012) B. Dridi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Complete Genome Sequence of Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis, the Largest Genome of a Human-Associated Archaea Species

(2012) A. Gorlas et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvus" Mx1201, a Methanogenic Archaeon from the Human Gut Belonging to a Seventh Order of Methanogens

(2012) G. Borrel et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Essential anaplerotic role for the energy-converting hydrogenase Eha in hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis

(2012) T. J. Lie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The archaellum: an old motility structure with a new name

(2012) Ken F. Jarrell et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Membrane-Bound Electron Transport in Methanosaeta thermophila

(2011) C. Welte et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Evolution of Respiratory Chain Complex I from a Smaller Last Common Ancestor Consisting of 11 Protein Subunits

(2011) Vamsi K. Moparthi et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Specificity of motor components in the dual flagellar system of Shewanella putrefaciens CN-32

(2011) Sebastian Bubendorfer et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The complete biosynthesis of the genetically encoded amino acid pyrrolysine from lysine

(2011) Marsha A. Gaston et al.   NATURE

The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases

(2011) R. Caspi et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Pfam protein families database

(2011) M. Punta et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Coupling of ferredoxin and heterodisulfide reduction via electron bifurcation in hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaea

(2011) A.-K. Kaster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hydrogenases from Methanogenic Archaea, Nickel, a Novel Cofactor, and H2Storage

(2010) Rudolf K. Thauer et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Geranylfarnesyl diphosphate synthase from Methanosarcina mazei: Different role, different evolution

(2010) Takuya Ogawa et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Involvement of Ech hydrogenase in energy conservation of Methanosarcina mazei

(2010) Cornelia Welte et al.   FEBS Journal

Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase/phosphatase may be an ancestral gluconeogenic enzyme

(2010) Rafael F. Say et al.   NATURE

Protein complexing in a methanogen suggests electron bifurcation and electron delivery from formate to heterodisulfide reductase

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

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

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane: Progress with an Unknown Process

(2009) Katrin Knittel et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Convergent evolution of coenzyme M biosynthesis in the Methanosarcinales: cysteate synthase evolved from an ancestral threonine synthase

(2009) David E. Graham et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

IMG ER: a system for microbial genome annotation expert review and curation

(2009) Victor M. Markowitz et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Methanogenesis byMethanosarcina acetivoransinvolves two structurally and functionally distinct classes of heterodisulfide reductase

(2009) Nicole R. Buan et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The Gene Ontology in 2010: extensions and refinements

(2009)   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Metabolic, Phylogenetic, and Ecological Diversity of the Methanogenic Archaea

(2008) Yuchen Liu et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Structure of the Archaeal Community of the Rumen

(2008) P. H. Janssen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Three-dimensional analysis of the structure and ecology of a novel, ultra-small archaeon

(2008) Luis R Comolli et al.   ISME Journal

Methanogenic archaea: ecologically relevant differences in energy conservation

(2008) Rudolf K. Thauer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY