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TRASH: a novel metal-binding domain predicted to be involved in heavy-metal sensing, trafficking and resistanceThijs J G Ettema
Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research Center Hesselink van Suchtelenweg 4, NL 6703CT, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Trends Biochem Sci 28:170-3. 2003..The role of the multiple copies of TRASH that are present in vertebrate proteins remains to be elucidated...
Identification and functional verification of archaeal-type phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, a missing link in archaeal central carbohydrate metabolismThijs J G Ettema
Laboratory of Microbiology, Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
J Bacteriol 186:7754-62. 2004..The newly identified atPEPC, with its distinct properties, constitutes yet another example of the versatility of the enzymes of the central carbon metabolic pathways in the archaeal domain...
The Lrp family of transcriptional regulatorsArie B Brinkman
Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Hesselink van Suchtelenweg 4, NL 6307 CT Wageningen, The Netherlands
Mol Microbiol 48:287-94. 2003....
Discovering novel biology by in silico archaeologyThijs J G Ettema
Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, 6703 CT Wageningen, The Netherlands
Nat Rev Microbiol 3:859-69. 2005..Combined with experimental verification, bioinformatic analysis contributes to the ongoing discovery of novel metabolic conversions and control mechanisms, and as such to a better understanding of the intriguing biology of the Archaea...
A novel ligand-binding domain involved in regulation of amino acid metabolism in prokaryotesThijs J G Ettema
Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Hesselink van Suchtelenweg 4, NL 6307 CT Wageningen, The Netherlands
J Biol Chem 277:37464-8. 2002..Both domains appear to play analogous roles in controlling key steps in amino acid metabolism at the level of gene expression as well as enzyme activity...
Molecular characterization of a conserved archaeal copper resistance (cop) gene cluster and its copper-responsive regulator in Sulfolobus solfataricus P2Thijs J G Ettema
Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Hesselink van Suchtelenweg 4, The Netherlands
Microbiology 152:1969-79. 2006..A model is proposed for copper-responsive transcriptional regulation of the copMA gene cluster...
Biochemical adaptations of two sugar kinases from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosusCorne H Verhees
Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Biochem J 366:121-7. 2002..There is a discussion about whether the unusual features of these two classes of kinases might reflect adaptations to a relatively low intracellular ATP concentration in the hyperthermophilic archaeon P. furiosus...
The non-phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPN) of Sulfolobus solfataricus: a key-enzyme of the semi-phosphorylative branch of the Entner-Doudoroff pathwayThijs J G Ettema
Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
Extremophiles 12:75-88. 2008..This work suggests an important role of GAPN in the regulation of carbon degradation via modifications of the EMP and the branched ED pathway in hyperthermophilic Archaea...
Reconstructing the evolution of the mitochondrial ribosomal proteomePaulien Smits
Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial Disorders, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein zuid 10, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Nucleic Acids Res 35:4686-703. 2007..These newly detected MRPs constitute, along with evolutionary conserved MRPs, excellent new screening targets for human patients with unresolved mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation disorders...
Signature genes as a phylogenomic toolBas E Dutilh
Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Mol Biol Evol 25:1659-67. 2008..Summarizing, signature genes can complement traditional sequence-based methods in addressing taxonomic questions...
Comment on "A 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate autotrophic carbon dioxide assimilation pathway in Archaea"Thijs J G Ettema
Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, S 752 36 Sweden
Science 321:342; author reply 342. 2008..We question the validity of the latter claim...
