Skip to main content
  • ASM
    • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
    • Clinical Microbiology Reviews
    • Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
    • EcoSal Plus
    • Eukaryotic Cell
    • Infection and Immunity
    • Journal of Bacteriology
    • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    • Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
    • Journal of Virology
    • mBio
    • Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
    • Microbiology Resource Announcements
    • Microbiology Spectrum
    • Molecular and Cellular Biology
    • mSphere
    • mSystems
  • Log in
  • My alerts
  • My Cart

Main menu

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Latest Articles
    • COVID-19 Special Collection
    • Archive
    • Minireviews
  • Topics
    • Applied and Environmental Science
    • Clinical Science and Epidemiology
    • Ecological and Evolutionary Science
    • Host-Microbe Biology
    • Molecular Biology and Physiology
    • Therapeutics and Prevention
  • For Authors
    • Submit a Manuscript
    • Scope
    • Editorial Policy
    • Submission, Review, & Publication Processes
    • Organization and Format
    • Errata, Author Corrections, Retractions
    • Illustrations and Tables
    • Nomenclature
    • Abbreviations and Conventions
    • Publication Fees
    • Ethics Resources and Policies
  • About the Journal
    • About mBio
    • Editor in Chief
    • Board of Editors
    • AAM Fellows
    • For Reviewers
    • For the Media
    • For Librarians
    • For Advertisers
    • Alerts
    • RSS
    • FAQ
  • ASM
    • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
    • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
    • Clinical Microbiology Reviews
    • Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
    • EcoSal Plus
    • Eukaryotic Cell
    • Infection and Immunity
    • Journal of Bacteriology
    • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
    • Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
    • Journal of Virology
    • mBio
    • Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
    • Microbiology Resource Announcements
    • Microbiology Spectrum
    • Molecular and Cellular Biology
    • mSphere
    • mSystems

User menu

  • Log in
  • My alerts
  • My Cart

Search

  • Advanced search
mBio
publisher-logosite-logo

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Latest Articles
    • COVID-19 Special Collection
    • Archive
    • Minireviews
  • Topics
    • Applied and Environmental Science
    • Clinical Science and Epidemiology
    • Ecological and Evolutionary Science
    • Host-Microbe Biology
    • Molecular Biology and Physiology
    • Therapeutics and Prevention
  • For Authors
    • Submit a Manuscript
    • Scope
    • Editorial Policy
    • Submission, Review, & Publication Processes
    • Organization and Format
    • Errata, Author Corrections, Retractions
    • Illustrations and Tables
    • Nomenclature
    • Abbreviations and Conventions
    • Publication Fees
    • Ethics Resources and Policies
  • About the Journal
    • About mBio
    • Editor in Chief
    • Board of Editors
    • AAM Fellows
    • For Reviewers
    • For the Media
    • For Librarians
    • For Advertisers
    • Alerts
    • RSS
    • FAQ

archaea

  • Open Access
    Ancestral Reconstructions Decipher Major Adaptations of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea upon Radiation into Moderate Terrestrial and Marine Environments
    Research Article | Ecological and Evolutionary Science
    Ancestral Reconstructions Decipher Major Adaptations of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea upon Radiation into Moderate Terrestrial and Marine Environments

    Unlike all other archaeal lineages, ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) of the phylum Thaumarchaeota are widespread and abundant in all moderate and oxic environments on Earth. The evolutionary adaptations that led to such unprecedented ecological success of a microbial clade characterized by highly conserved energy and carbon metabolisms have, however, remained...

    Sophie S. Abby, Melina Kerou, Christa Schleper
  • Open Access
    The Ribbon-Helix-Helix Domain Protein CdrS Regulates the Tubulin Homolog <em>ftsZ2</em> To Control Cell Division in Archaea
    Research Article | Molecular Biology and Physiology
    The Ribbon-Helix-Helix Domain Protein CdrS Regulates the Tubulin Homolog ftsZ2 To Control Cell Division in Archaea

    Healthy cell growth and division are critical for individual organism survival and species long-term viability. However, it remains unknown how cells of the domain Archaea maintain a healthy cell cycle. Understanding the archaeal cell cycle is of paramount evolutionary importance given that an archaeal cell was the host of the endosymbiotic event that gave rise to eukaryotes. Here, we identify and characterize novel molecular...

    Cynthia L. Darnell, Jenny Zheng, Sean Wilson, Ryan M. Bertoli, Alexandre W. Bisson-Filho, Ethan C. Garner, Amy K. Schmid
  • Open Access
    Archaeal Chromatin Proteins Cren7 and Sul7d Compact DNA by Bending and Bridging
    Research Article | Molecular Biology and Physiology
    Archaeal Chromatin Proteins Cren7 and Sul7d Compact DNA by Bending and Bridging

    A long-standing question is how chromosomal DNA is packaged in Crenarchaeota, a major group of archaea, which synthesize large amounts of unique small DNA-binding proteins but in general contain no archaeal histones. In the present work, we tested our hypothesis that the two well-studied crenarchaeal chromatin proteins Cren7 and Sul7d compact DNA by both DNA bending and bridging. We show that the two proteins are capable of compacting...

    Zhenfeng Zhang, Zhengyan Zhan, Bing Wang, Yuanyuan Chen, Xiuqiang Chen, Cuihong Wan, Yu Fu, Li Huang
  • Open Access
    Killer Archaea: Virus-Mediated Antagonism to CRISPR-Immune Populations Results in Emergent Virus-Host Mutualism
    Research Article | Ecological and Evolutionary Science
    Killer Archaea: Virus-Mediated Antagonism to CRISPR-Immune Populations Results in Emergent Virus-Host Mutualism

    Multiple studies, especially those focusing on the role of lytic viruses in key model systems, have shown the importance of viruses in shaping microbial populations. However, it has become increasingly clear that viruses with a long host-virus interaction, such as those with a chronic lifestyle, can be important drivers of evolution and have large impacts on host ecology. In this work, we describe one such interaction with the acidic...

    Samantha J. DeWerff, Maria A. Bautista, Matthew Pauly, Changyi Zhang, Rachel J. Whitaker
  • Open Access
    “<em>Candidatus</em> Ethanoperedens,” a Thermophilic Genus of <em>Archaea</em> Mediating the Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethane
    Research Article | Applied and Environmental Science
    “Candidatus Ethanoperedens,” a Thermophilic Genus of Archaea Mediating the Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethane

    In the seabed, gaseous alkanes are oxidized by syntrophic microbial consortia that thereby reduce fluxes of these compounds into the water column. Because of the immense quantities of seabed alkane fluxes, these consortia are key catalysts of the global carbon cycle. Due to their obligate syntrophic lifestyle, the physiology of alkane-degrading archaea remains poorly understood. We have now cultivated a thermophilic, relatively fast-...

    Cedric Jasper Hahn, Rafael Laso-Pérez, Francesca Vulcano, Konstantinos-Marios Vaziourakis, Runar Stokke, Ida Helene Steen, Andreas Teske, Antje Boetius, Manuel Liebeke, Rudolf Amann, Katrin Knittel, Gunter Wegener
  • Open Access
    Lipid Anchoring of Archaeosortase Substrates and Midcell Growth in Haloarchaea
    Research Article | Molecular Biology and Physiology
    Lipid Anchoring of Archaeosortase Substrates and Midcell Growth in Haloarchaea

    The subcellular organization of biochemical processes in space and time is still one of the most mysterious topics in archaeal cell biology. Despite the fact that haloarchaea largely rely on covalent lipid anchoring to coat the cell envelope, little is known about how cells coordinate de novo synthesis and about the insertion of this proteinaceous layer throughout the cell cycle. Here, we report the identification of two novel...

    Mohd Farid Abdul-Halim, Stefan Schulze, Anthony DiLucido, Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Alexandre Wilson Bisson Filho, Mechthild Pohlschroder
  • Open Access
    Species-Specific Recognition of <em>Sulfolobales</em> Mediated by UV-Inducible Pili and S-Layer Glycosylation Patterns
    Research Article | Molecular Biology and Physiology
    Species-Specific Recognition of Sulfolobales Mediated by UV-Inducible Pili and S-Layer Glycosylation Patterns

    Type IV pili can be found on the cell surface of many archaea and bacteria where they play important roles in different processes. The UV-inducible pili system of Sulfolobales (Ups) pili from the crenarchaeal Sulfolobales species are essential in establishing species-specific mating partners, thereby assisting in genome stability. With this work, we show that different Sulfolobus species have specific regions...

    Marleen van Wolferen, Asif Shajahan, Kristina Heinrich, Susanne Brenzinger, Ian M. Black, Alexander Wagner, Ariane Briegel, Parastoo Azadi, Sonja-Verena Albers
  • Open Access
    Metagenomes from Coastal Marine Sediments Give Insights into the Ecological Role and Cellular Features of <em>Loki</em>- and <em>Thorarchaeota</em>
    Research Article | Ecological and Evolutionary Science
    Metagenomes from Coastal Marine Sediments Give Insights into the Ecological Role and Cellular Features of Loki- and Thorarchaeota

    Microorganisms of the superphylum Asgard Archaea are considered to be the closest living prokaryotic relatives of eukaryotes (including plants and animals) and thus promise to give insights into the early evolution of more complex life forms. However, very little is known about their biology as none of the organisms has yet been cultivated in the laboratory. Here we report on the ecological distribution of Asgard Archaea...

    Lokeshwaran Manoharan, Jessica A. Kozlowski, Robert W. Murdoch, Frank E. Löffler, Filipa L. Sousa, Christa Schleper
  • Open Access
    The TK0271 Protein Activates Transcription of Aromatic Amino Acid Biosynthesis Genes in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon <span class="named-content genus-species" id="named-content-1">Thermococcus kodakarensis</span>
    Research Article | Molecular Biology and Physiology
    The TK0271 Protein Activates Transcription of Aromatic Amino Acid Biosynthesis Genes in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis

    The mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in archaea are still poorly understood. In this study, we identified a transcriptional regulator in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis that activates the transcription of three operons involved in the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids. The study represents one of only a few that identifies a...

    Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Tamotsu Kanai, Tsuyoshi Kaneseki, Haruyuki Atomi
  • Open Access
    Cell Structure Changes in the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon <span class="named-content genus-species" id="named-content-1">Sulfolobus islandicus</span> Lacking the S-Layer
    Research Article | Molecular Biology and Physiology
    Cell Structure Changes in the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicus Lacking the S-Layer

    The S-layer is considered to be the sole component of the cell wall in Sulfolobales, a taxonomic group within the Crenarchaeota whose cellular features have been suggested to have a close relationship to the last archaea-eukaryote common ancestor. In this study, we genetically dissect how the two previously characterized S-layer genes as well as a newly identified S-layer-associated protein-encoding gene contribute to...

    Changyi Zhang, Rebecca L. Wipfler, Yuan Li, Zhiyu Wang, Emily N. Hallett, Rachel J. Whitaker

Pages

  • Next
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
Back to top

About

  • About mBio
  • Editor in Chief
  • Board of Editors
  • AAM Fellows
  • Policies
  • For Reviewers
  • For the Media
  • For Librarians
  • For Advertisers
  • Alerts
  • RSS
  • FAQ
  • Permissions
  • Journal Announcements

Authors

  • ASM Author Center
  • Submit a Manuscript
  • Author Warranty
  • Article Types
  • Ethics
  • Contact Us

Follow #mBio

@ASMicrobiology

       

ASM Journals

ASM journals are the most prominent publications in the field, delivering up-to-date and authoritative coverage of both basic and clinical microbiology.

About ASM | Contact Us | Press Room

 

ASM is a member of

Scientific Society Publisher Alliance

 

American Society for Microbiology
1752 N St. NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 737-3600

Copyright © 2021 American Society for Microbiology | Privacy Policy | Website feedback

Online ISSN: 2150-7511