Here, the authors identify widespread disease associations of gut archaea, particularly in colorectal cancer, with further experiments revealing Methanobrevibacter smithii cooperation with cancer-asso...

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This structure of an archaeal tailed virus (arTV) provides detailed insights into arTV assembly and infection mechanisms.

Bona fide gene clusters for archaella are widespread across a bacterial phylum and encode functional motility machinery.

The human respiratory tract (RT) harbors complex microbial communities whose functions are critical to health and disease. Yet, current insights remain fragmented across anatomical sites, populations,...

The human gut is colonized by trillions of microbes that influence the health of their human host. Whereas many bacterial species have now been linked to a variety of different diseases, the involveme...

Baquero et al. show that extracellular vesicles produced by the dominant human-gut archaeon are likely formed by budding from the cell membrane and released through disruptions in the cell wall, and c...

The composition and potential roles of extracellular vesicles released by gut archaea are poorly understood. Here, Weinberger et al. show that extracellular vesicles produced by human gut-derived meth...

Podcast Episode · ArchaeaCast · 05/20/2025 · 30m

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Two mesophilic, hydrogenotrophic methanogens, WWM1085 and M. smithii GRAZ-2, were isolated from human faecal samples. WWM1085 was isolated from an individual in the United States and represents a nove...