The chromatin landscape of the euryarchaeon Haloferax volcanii [PDF]
Background Archaea, together with Bacteria, represent the two main divisions of life on Earth, with many of the defining characteristics of the more complex eukaryotes tracing their origin to evolutionary innovations first made in their archaeal ...
Georgi K. Marinov +5 more
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The Adaptive Immune System of Haloferax volcanii [PDF]
To fight off invading genetic elements, prokaryotes have developed an elaborate defence system that is both adaptable and heritable—the CRISPR-Cas system (CRISPR is short for: clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and Cas: CRISPR ...
Lisa-Katharina Maier +2 more
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MinD proteins regulate CetZ1 localization in Haloferax volcanii [PDF]
CetZ proteins are archaea-specific homologs of the cytoskeletal proteins FtsZ and tubulin. In the pleomorphic archaeon Haloferax volcanii, CetZ1 contributes to the development of rod shape and motility, and has been implicated in the proper assembly and ...
Hannah J. Brown, Iain G. Duggin
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Haloferax volcanii: a versatile model for studying archaeal biology [PDF]
Archaea, once thought limited to extreme environments, are now recognized as ubiquitous and fundamental players in global ecosystems. While morphologically similar to bacteria, they are a distinct domain of life and are evolutionarily closer to ...
Mechthild Pohlschroder +3 more
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Iron starvation results in up-regulation of a probable Haloferax volcanii siderophore transporter [PDF]
The response of the haloarchaeal model organism Haloferax volcanii to iron starvation was analyzed at the proteome level by data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry. Cells grown in minimal medium with normal iron levels were compared to those grown
Henning Urlaub +2 more
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The extreme halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii reduced Fe(III) to conserve energy from extracellular electron transfer [PDF]
Iron availability affects oceanic primary productivity and the strength of the biological carbon pump. However, the mechanism of iron solubility in hypersaline environments is poorly understood.
Yijing Miao +4 more
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“Influence of plasmids, selection markers and auxotrophic mutations on Haloferax volcanii cell shape plasticity” [PDF]
Haloferax volcanii and other Haloarchaea can be pleomorphic, adopting different shapes, which vary with growth stages. Several studies have shown that H.
Megha Patro +4 more
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Complete genome sequence of the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii PC0224, isolated from a solar saltern in Thailand [PDF]
Objectives Haloferax volcanii is an extreme halophile belonging to the Haloferacaceae family that thrives in hypersaline environments. This study presents the complete genome sequence of the H.
Manassanan Phatcharaharikarn +7 more
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The archaeal protein SepF is essential for cell division in Haloferax volcanii [PDF]
In most bacteria, cell division depends on tubulin homolog FtsZ and other proteins, such as SepF. Cell division in many archaea also depends on FtsZ. Here, Nußbaum et al.
Phillip Nußbaum +4 more
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MinD2 modulates cell shape and motility in the archaeon Haloferax volcanii [PDF]
In bacteria and archaea, proteins of the ParA/MinD family of ATPases regulate the spatiotemporal organization of various cellular cargoes, including cell division proteins, motility structures, chemotaxis systems, and chromosomes.
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