However, only a few Lokiarchaeum cells form these microtubules. And, unlike actin, these tubulin proteins only appear in very few species of Asgard archaea.

Its structure resembles HAP2. Archaea can be tough or impossible to grow in the lab with current techniques. But when archaeal Fsx1 was expressed in another type of cell, it prompted cell fusion.

Like bacteria, archaea are single-celled organisms. Genetically, however, there are significant differences between the two domains, especially regarding their cell envelopes and metabolic processes.

Carl Woese, the influential American microbiologist who discovered archaea in the late 1970s, held that the three groups stood on their own, each alike in dignity, representing distinct “domains” of ...

These cells could settle a raging debate in evolutionary science on defining one of the most basic groups of life, domains. The three domains have long been classified as bacteria, archaea, and ...

Minimal and hybrid hydrogenases are active from archaea. Cell, 2024; DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.05.032 ...