Molecular Biology of Archaea

Euryarchaeal genomes encode di-adeylate cyclases (DacZ). We showed that H. volcanii produces c-di-AMP and that under the tested...

Although archaea use a totally different motility machinery than bacteria, eg. euryarchaea have obtained the full chemotaxis system from...

Archaea use a unique structure for swimming motility which is not hoomologous to bacterial flagella, but instead resembles type IV pili....

Almost all Sulfolobales contain an type IV pili operon named the UV inducible pilus operon (ups). This operon is highly induced after UV...

Already in 2007 Zalan Szabo showed that archaellum expression in Sulfolobus solfataricus is starvation induced. Lateron we showed that...

We studied how different Sulfolobus species form biofilms, how these are build and which components build their matrix. Moreover, we...

Almost all extracellular proteins of archaea are modified by either N- or O-glycosylation or both. We have set out to analyze the...