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📢 I have an exciting PhD opportunity in my lab to study viral infection in #archaea 🦠 using #cryoEM and #cryoET 🔬. If you are interested, do not hesitate to get in touch! #ArchaeaSky.
November 4, 2026 at 10:15 AM
danielabarilla.bsky.social
#ArchaeaSky #MicroSky
Protein duplication across Archaea
October 11, 2026 at 10:50 AM
evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
Cryo-EM structure of a methanogen nitrogenase–PII protein supercomplex
#methanogens #nitrogen #CryoEM #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky
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Cryo-EM structure of a methanogen nitrogenase–PII protein supercomplex - Nature
Cryo-electron microscopy of a nitrogenase supercomplex from a methane-producing archaeon reveals a mechanism in which PII proteins drive assembly of such structures to regulate nitrogenase activity in...
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October 9, 2026 at 11:18 AM
evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
Arsenate reduction coupled to anaerobic oxidation of methane by members of the Methanoperedenaceae
#microbiology #methane #archaea #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky
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October 7, 2026 at 7:37 PM
evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
Enceladus-like geochemistry fuels methanogenesis under extreme CO2 limitation
#methanogenesis #methanogens #methane #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky
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Enceladus-like geochemistry fuels methanogenesis under extreme CO2 limitation
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...
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October 5, 2026 at 8:09 AM
stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
👇already featured in STC... but still stunning👀
#MicroSky #Archaea #ArchaeaSky
September 30, 2026 at 6:43 PM
dodonova-sveta.bsky.social
6/ ==> First structural view of transcription through chromatin in archaea. Thanks to all co-authors! ☺️
#archaeaSky #chromatin #transcription
September 30, 2026 at 12:02 PM
evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
Comparative analysis of adhesin-like proteins from Methanobacteriales species
#microbiology #archaea #methanogens #methane #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky
doi.org/10.3389/fmic...
Frontiers | Comparative analysis of adhesin-like proteins from Methanobacteriales species
Methanogenic archaea are key syntrophic partners in animal and human guts. However, the molecular basis of physical and functional interactions of methanogen...
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September 29, 2026 at 6:39 AM
evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
A methanogen hydrolase reveals the structure of archaeal peptidoglycan
#Archaea #Methanogens #methane #GutMicrobiota #Microbiome #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky
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A methanogen hydrolase reveals the structure of archaeal peptidoglycan - Nature
ArmA from Methanobrevibacter smithii, a dominant member of the human gut microbiome, is identified and characterized as a glycosyl hydrolase specific for cleaving the cell wall of methanogens, reveali...
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September 24, 2026 at 1:36 PM
sgribaldo.bsky.social
Building upon the legacy of Kandler and König, our findings reshape a 50-year-old view on archaeal PG structure. Given the importance of methanogens in ecology, biotechnology, and the animal&human microbiomes, these results open new avenues to study their biology and evolution 7/9
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September 23, 2026 at 3:19 PM
evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
Group II Mcr-encoding archaea exhibit methane-cycling potential in geothermal springs
#microbiology #methanogens #archaea #methane #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky
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Group II Mcr-encoding archaea exhibit methane-cycling potential in geothermal springs - BMC Biology
Background Methane is a potent greenhouse gas with profound implications for climate change, and its global emissions are largely driven by biological methanogenesis—a process long thought to be restr...
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September 17, 2026 at 1:05 PM
evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
An integrated culturomic and genomic database and analysis platform for methanogenic archaea
#microbiology #bioinformatics #archaea #methanogens #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky
doi.org/10.1093/data...
An integrated culturomic and genomic database and analysis platform for methanogenic archaea
Abstract. Methanogenic archaea research is challenged by limited strain resources, fragmented genomic data, inconsistent genome quality, substantial uncult
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September 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
aribio.bsky.social
PAPER ALERT!!!
For over 20 years, circular pre-rRNA intermediates were thought to be a specific and universal requirement for archaeal ribosome biogenesis.

doi.org/10.1261/rna....

#Archaea #Ribosome #RNAProcessing
#Archaeasky #RNAsky
September 15, 2026 at 9:34 AM
evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
Expanding the substrate range of methanogenesis: thermophilic methanogenic Archaeoglobi produce methane from long-chain fatty acids 🤓🧫🔥
#methanogens #methane #archaea #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky
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Evidence of direct methane production from long-chain fatty acids by thermophilic Archaeoglobi - Nature Microbiology
An enrichment culture from hot spring sediments in China suggests that Ca. M. sphaerolipidus uses a suite of metabolic pathways to convert long-chain fatty acids such as oleic acid to methane, a proce...
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September 15, 2026 at 11:13 AM
stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
(archaeal) cell divisionists take note 👇

no, the diderm 𝘐𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴 did 𝗻𝗼𝘁 invent the nucleus, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 something pretty similar to 'closed mitosis' (as in yeast).

look @sbulgheresi.bsky.social !
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Figure 4. Membrane duplication in Ignicoccus progeny. A to H, see source for details. source: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.08.750209v1.full.pdf+html
September 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
The structure of a nitrogenase from a hyperthermophilic methanogen growing at 92 °C sheds light on how nitrogen fixation evolved 🧫🔥
#Microbiology #Methanogens #StructuralBiology #Evolution #Nitrogenase #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky
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Molecular basis of N2 fixation in a hyperthermophilic archaeon - Nature Communications
Nitrogenases are enzymes that convert atmospheric N2 into ammonia, thus providing bioavailable nitrogen to living organisms. Here, Maslać et al. describe a highly thermostable, simple nitrogenase from...
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September 10, 2026 at 8:46 AM
florianwollweber.bsky.social
Exciting news! Our @erc.europa.eu StG project ARCHAEAOLOGY got funded 🎉
We’ll combine cryoET/EM, ExM & spatial omics to explore the subcellular organization of Asgard archaea.
Job ads coming soon! 🦠 ❄️ 🔬
#TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky #MicroSky
embl.org EMBL @embl.org · Sep 3
Congratulations to @florianwollweber.bsky.social, the recently appointed Group Leader at EMBL Grenoble, who received an ERC Starting Grant worth approximately €2 million to investigate the origins of eukaryotic cell complexity.
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September 5, 2026 at 12:57 PM
stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
#MicroSky #Archaea #ArchaeaSky
michiwagner4.bsky.social Michael Wagner @michiwagner4.bsky.social · Sep 4
Who knew ammonia-oxidizing archaea could be “flexitarians”?

Our new study in Science Advances shows that #AOA living inside marine sponges can assimilate branched-chain amino acids, an unexpected talent that may even shape how they interact with their hosts 🧽🤝🦠

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Branched-chain amino acid assimilation enables mixotrophy of ammonia-oxidizing archaeal sponge symbionts
Marine sponges and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) represent one of the earliest animal-microbe symbioses. AOA are considered metabolically constrained chemolithoautotrophs that remove nitrogenous was...
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September 5, 2026 at 1:21 AM
evgenii-protasov.bsky.social
Cofactor F420 Tail Length Diversity in Specific Representatives of the Class Methanosarcinia During Acetoclastic and Methylotrophic Methanogenesis: Deciphering Structural Variations
#microbiology #methanogens #methane #methanogenesis #MicroSky #ArchaeaSky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
August 27, 2026 at 10:16 PM
stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
the entire Asgard family of Archaea – including 𝘓𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘮 – is laughing their heads off and waving their tiny arms 😄
#Archaea #ArchaeaSky
Scientists recently captured detailed images of an Asgard archaeon, an evolutionarily ancient microbe that may have been key to the emergence of complex life on Earth. (Image credit: © Thiago Rodrigues-Oliveira, Univ. Wien)
August 21, 2026 at 8:04 PM
stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
(archaeal) chromosome replicationists take note👇
#MicroSky #Archaea #ArchaeaSky
August 20, 2026 at 5:15 PM
stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
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August 14, 2026 at 10:44 PM
bettinasiebers.bsky.social
New paper! 🎉 Efficient one-step enzymatic synthesis of cyclic-2,3-diphosphoglycerate (cDPG) — an extremolyte from archaea!
Congrats to Christina + HotSolute team!
#ArchaeaSky #Extremozymes #Archaea #ERACoBioTech #Horizon2020
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May 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
romain-villa.bsky.social
Curious about the top methane-maker in your gut? Meet this month's featured microbe and find out! 🦠💨🔥 in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social #archaeasky
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Methanobrevibacter smithii
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November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
kmichie.bsky.social
Anymore archaea peeps out there keen to be part of the ‘kingdom’? #archaeasky

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November 18, 2024 at 12:46 PM