Occupancy of the HbYX hydrophobic pocket is sufficient to induce gate opening in the archaeal 20S proteasomes [PDF]
eLifeEnhancing proteasome function has been a long-standing but challenging target of interest for the potential treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, emphasizing the importance of understanding proteasome activation mechanisms.
Janelle JY Chuah +2 more
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Expanded Archaeal Genomes Shed New Light on the Evolution of Isoprenoid Biosynthesis [PDF]
MicroorganismsIsoprenoids and their derivatives, essential for all cellular life on Earth, are particularly crucial in archaeal membrane lipids, suggesting that their biosynthesis pathways have ancient origins and play pivotal roles in the evolution of early life ...
Pengfei Zhu +5 more
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Functional Characterization of Serotonin N-Acetyltransferase in Archaeon Thermoplasma volcanium [PDF]
Antioxidants, 2022 Serotonin N-acetyltransferase is the penultimate enzyme in the melatonin biosynthetic pathway that catalyzes serotonin into N-acetylserotonin. Many SNAT genes have been cloned and characterized from organisms ranging from bacteria to plants and mammals ...
Kyungjin Lee +2 more
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Escherichia coli RimI Encodes Serotonin N-Acetyltransferase Activity and Its Overexpression Leads to Enhanced Growth and Melatonin Biosynthesis [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2023 Serotonin N-acetyltransferase (SNAT) functions as the penultimate or final enzyme in melatonin biosynthesis, depending on the substrate. The Escherichia coli orthologue of archaeal SNAT from Thermoplasma volcanium was identified as RimI (EcRimI), with 42%
Kyungjin Lee, Kyoungwhan Back
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Evolutionary patterns of archaea predominant in acidic environment [PDF]
Environmental Microbiome, 2023 Background Archaea of the order Thermoplasmatales are widely distributed in natural acidic areas and are amongst the most acidophilic prokaryotic organisms known so far.
Rafael Bargiela +6 more
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Microbial diversity of hot springs of the Kuril Islands [PDF]
BMC MicrobiologyThe Kuril Islands are located in the Far-East of Russia and enriched with shallow and terrestrial hot springs. Prokaryotic diversity of Kuril geothermal environments has been studied fragmentarily and mainly by culture-dependent methods. We performed the
Alina I. Karaseva +4 more
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Substrate Promiscuity of Thermoplasma acidophilum Malic Enzyme for CO2 Fixation Reaction [PDF]
JACS AuYuri Oku, Tomoko Matsuda
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Archaeal Life on Tangkuban Perahu-Sampling and Culture Growth in Indonesian Laboratories
Hayati Journal of Biosciences, 2012 The aim of the expedition to Tangkuban Perahu, West Java was to obtain archaeal samples from the solfatara fields located in Domas crater. This was one of the places, where scientists from the University of Regensburg Germany had formerly isolated ...
SRI HANDAYANI +11 more
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Removal of diclofenac from aqueous solutions by adsorption on thermo-plasma expanded graphite
Scientific Reports, 2021 The adsorption of diclofenac on thermo-plasma expanded graphite (a commercial product) from water solutions was investigated. The adsorbent material was characterized by SEM, TEM, BET, Raman and X-ray diffraction analyses. Typical diffractogram and Raman
Marco Cuccarese +6 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Archaeal species encode a variety of distinct lineage-specific chromosomal proteins. We have previously shown that in Thermococcus kodakarensis, histone, Alba, and TrmBL2 play distinct roles in chromosome organization.
Hugo Maruyama +7 more
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