ArticleFEMS microbes2021
A comprehensive history of motility and Archaellation in Archaea.
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- Two types of sheathed archaellum structures from Haloarcula marismortui differ in their outer layer architectures.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Structure of a functional archaellum in Bacteria of the Chloroflexota phylum.Nature microbiology · 2025Article
- The Lrs14-Like AbfR1 Homolog From Metallosphaera sedula Is a Nucleoid-Organizing Protein.MicrobiologyOpen · 2025Article
- Cell surface differences within the genusJournal of bacteriology · 2025Review
- Cyclization of archaeal membrane lipids impacts membrane protein activity and archaellum formation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- How Does the Archaellum Work?Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Tat-fimbriae ("tafi"): An unusual type of haloarchaeal surface structure depending on the twin-arginine translocation pathway.iScience · 2025Article
- Unusual cell surfaces, pili, and archaella of Thermoplasmatales archaea.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Phosphorylation-driven conformational switching of the ArnA-ArnB complex involved in archaeal motility regulation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Towards a molecular picture of the archaeal cell surface.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Genome reduction in novel, obligately methyl-reducing Methanosarcinales isolated from arthropod guts (Methanolapillus gen. nov. and Methanimicrococcus).FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Perturbed N-glycosylation of Halobacterium salinarum archaellum filaments leads to filament bundling and compromised cell motility.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Involvement of ArlI, ArlJ, and CirA in archaeal type IV pilin-mediated motility regulation.Journal of bacteriology · 2024Article
- CryoEM reveals the structure of an archaeal pilus involved in twitching motility.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Involvement of ArlI, ArlJ, and CirA in Archaeal Type-IV Pilin-Mediated Motility Regulation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Each of the three Domains of life, Eukarya, Bacteria and Archaea, have swimming structures that were all originally called flagella, despite the fact that none were evolutionarily related to either of the other two. Surprisingly, this was true even in the two prokaryotic Domains of Bacteria and Archaea. Beginning in the 1980s, evidence gradually accumulated that convincingly demonstrated that the motility organelle in Archaea was unrelated to that found in Bacteria, but surprisingly shared significant similarities to type IV pili. This information culminated in the proposal, in 2012, that the 'archaeal flagellum' be assigned a new name, the archaellum. In this review, we provide a historical overview on archaella and motility research in Archaea, beginning with the first simple observations of motile extreme halophilic archaea a century ago up to state-of-the-art cryo-tomography of the archaellum motor complex and filament observed today. In addition to structural and biochemical data which revealed the archaellum to be a type IV pilus-like structure repurposed as a rotating nanomachine (Beeby
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