Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes

L Eme, A Spang, J Lombard, CW Stairs… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Woese and Fox's 1977 paper on the discovery of the Archaea triggered a revolution in the
field of evolutionary biology by showing that life was divided into not only prokaryotes and …

Four billion years of microbial terpenome evolution

Y Hoshino, L Villanueva - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Terpenoids, also known as isoprenoids, are the largest and most diverse class of organic
compounds in nature and are involved in many membrane-associated cellular processes …

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

MC Weiss, FL Sousa, N Mrnjavac, S Neukirchen… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The concept of a last universal common ancestor of all cells (LUCA, or the progenote) is
central to the study of early evolution and life's origin, yet information about how and where …

Ammonia‐oxidizing archaea release a suite of organic compounds potentially fueling prokaryotic heterotrophy in the ocean

B Bayer, RL Hansman, MJ Bittner… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ammonia‐oxidizing archaea (AOA) constitute a considerable fraction of microbial biomass
in the global ocean, comprising 20%–40% of the ocean's prokaryotic plankton. However, it …

Archaeal lipids

T Řezanka, L Kyselová, DJ Murphy - Progress in Lipid Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The major archaeal membrane glycerolipids are distinguished from those of bacteria and
eukaryotes by the contrasting stereochemistry of their glycerol backbones, and by the use of …

Ancient systems of sodium/potassium homeostasis as predecessors of membrane bioenergetics

DV Dibrova, MY Galperin, EV Koonin… - Biochemistry …, 2015 - Springer
Cell cytoplasm of archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes contains substantially more potassium
than sodium, and potassium cations are specifically required for many key cellular …

Converting Escherichia coli into an archaebacterium with a hybrid heterochiral membrane

A Caforio, MF Siliakus, M Exterkate, S Jain… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
One of the main differences between bacteria and archaea concerns their membrane
composition. Whereas bacterial membranes are made up of glycerol-3-phosphate ester …

Methyl/alkyl‐coenzyme M reductase‐based anaerobic alkane oxidation in archaea

Y Wang, G Wegener, SE Ruff… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Methyl‐coenzyme M reductase (MCR) has been originally identified to catalyse the final step
of the methanogenesis pathway. About 20 years ago an aerobic me thane‐oxidizing …