Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus features chemical signatures consistent with an alkaline soda ocean with H2 production via hydrothermal water-rock reactions. Chemolithoautotrophic methanogenesis is thermo...

Abstract. Life thrives in Earth’s most inhospitable environments, from boiling hydrothermal vents to hypersaline lakes and frozen polar deserts, thanks to

Antiphage defense systems protect bacteria from viral infection and have inspired important biotechnologies such as CRISPR-Cas9 while also revealing the evolutionary roots of eukaryotic innate immunit...

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Discover the latest election of 95 new Fellows by the European Academy of Microbiology, highlighting diverse expertise in the field.

Symbiosis is a major source of evolutionary innovation, but our understanding of it mainly comes from animal systems. Husnik et al. review symbioses involving protists, the microbial cells that repres...

Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...

RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) considerably expand the information content of the genome and can determine the lifespan, localization and function of RNA, thereby controlling when, where and how much pro...

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Exploring the molecular mechanisms that underpin key biological processes, the Biochemical Journal is a leading bioscience journal publishing high-impact scientific research papers and reviews in the ...

M. mazei proteomics detects 234 small proteins across different growth conditions, including small ribosomal proteins, ferredoxins with Fe-S cluster motifs

TFIID is instrumental in recognizing promoter sequences and initiating transcription, yet a cohesive understanding of how this complex interacts with and functions at different promoter types in vivo ...

The global burden of antimicrobial resistance demands the urgent development of new antibiotics. To face this threat, Torres et al. leveraged deep-learning models to identify archaeal encrypted peptides (termed ‘archaeasins’) with potential antimicrobial activity. This work highlights Archaea as an underexplored but potentially rich source of antibiotics.

UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   The Faculty of Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine invites applications for a   Professurship (W2) in Microbiology   To be...

Long-read sequence assemblies from metagenomes contain frequent errors.

Marine archaea are nowadays recognized as central elements in ocean food webs, playing key roles in global nitrogen cycling and other biogeochemical processes. Metabolic diversity enables marine archa...