The archaeal cell cycle: Current issues

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 599-604

  Bernander, Rolf ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DNA A; FTSZ PROTEIN; MIND PROTEIN; PROTEIN ALBA; PROTEIN RIO1P; PROTEIN SCPA; PROTEIN SCPB; PROTEIN SPH1; PROTEIN SPH2; SILENT INFORMATION REGULATOR PROTEIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEGREGATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SHORT SURVEY;

ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA REPLICATION; GENOME, ARCHAEAL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; NANOARCHAEOTA;

EID: 0038687976     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03414.x     Document Type: Short Survey

References (42)

1. Angermayr, M., Roidl, A., and Bandlow, W. (2002) Yeast Rio1p is the founding member of a novel subfamily of protein serine kinases involved in the control of cell cycle progression. Mol Microbiol 44: 309-324.
2. Bell, S.D., Botting, C.H., Wardleworth, B.N., Jackson, S.P., and White, M.F. (2002) The interaction of Alba, a conserved archaeal chromatin protein, with Sir2 and its regulation by acetylation. Science 296: 148-151.
3. Bernander, R. (1998) Archaea and the cell cycle. Mol Microbiol 29: 955-961.
4. Bernander, R. (2000) Chromosome replication, nucleoid segregation and cell division in Archaea. Trends Microbiol 8: 278-283.
5. Bernander, R., and Poplawski, A. (1997) Cell cycle characteristics of thermophilic archaea. J Bacteriol 179: 4963-4969.
6. Dassain, M., Leroy, A., Colosetti, L., Carolé, S., and Bouché, J.-P. (1999) A new essential gene of the 'minimal genome' affecting cell division. Biochimie 81: 889-895.
7. Davey, M.J., Jeruzalmi, D., Kuriyan, J., and O'Donnell, M. (2002) Motors and switches: AAA+ machines within the replisome. Nature Rev 3: 1-10.
8. van den Ent, F., Amos, L.A., and Löwe, J. (2001) Prokaryotic origin of the actin cytoskeleton. Nature 413: 39-44.
9. Erzberger, J.P., Pirruccello, M.M., and Berger, J.M. (2002) The structure of bacterial DnaA: implications for general mechanisms underlying DNA replication initiation. EMBO J 21: 4763-4773.
10. Gollop, N., and March, P.E. (1991) A GTP-binding protein (Era) has an essential role in growth rate and cell cycle control in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 173: 2265-2270.
11. Hayashi, I., Oyama, T., and Morikawa, K. (2001) Structural and functional studies of Mind ATPase: implications for the molecular recognition of the bacterial cell division apparatus. EMBO J 20: 1819-1828.
12. Herrmann, U., and Soppa, J. (2002) Cell cycle-dependent expression of an essential SMC-like protein and dynamic chromosome localization in the archaeon Halobacterium salinarum. Mol Microbiol 46: 395-409.
13. Hjort, K., and Bernander, R. (2001) Cell cycle regulation in the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Mol Microbiol 40: 225-234.
14. Hu, Z., Gogol, E.P., and Lutkenhaus, J. (2002) Dynamic assembly of Mind on phospholipid vesicles regulated by ATP and MinE. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99: 6761-6766.
15. Huber, H., Hohn, M.J., Rachel, R., Fuchs, T., Wimmer, V.C., and Stetter, K.O. (2002) A new phylum of Archaea represented by a nanosized hyperthermophilic symbiont. Nature 417: 63-67.
16. Jones, L.J.F., Carballido-López, R., and Errington, J. (2001) Control of cell shape in bacteria: helical, actin-like filaments in Bacillus subtilis. Cell 104: 913-922.
17. Kawarabayasi, Y., Hino, Y., Horikawa, H., Jin-No, K., Takahashi, M., Sekine, M., et al. (2001) Complete genome sequence of an aerobic thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon, Sulfolobus tokodaii strain 7. DNA Res 8: 123-140.
18. Klein, R.K., Misulovin, Z., and Eddy, S.R. (2002) Noncoding RNA genes identified in AT-rich hyperthermophiles. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99: 7542-7547.
19. Leipe, D.D., Wolf, Y.I., Koonin, E.V., and Aravind, L. (2002) Classification and evolution of P-loop GTPases and related ATPases. J Mol Biol 317: 41-72.
20. Liu, J., Smith, C.L., DeRyckere, D., DeAngelis, K., Martin, G.S., and Berger, J.M. (2000) Structure and function of Cdc/Cdc18: implications for origin recognition and checkpoint control. Mol Cell 6: 637-648.
21. Lopez, P., Philippe, H., Myllykallio, H., and Forterre, P. (1999) Identification of putative chromosomal origins of replication in Archaea. Mol Microbiol 32: 883-886.
22. Löwe, J., and Amos, L.A. (1988) Crystal structure of the bacterial cell-division protein FtsZ. Nature 391: 203-206.
23. Maisnier-Patin, S., Malandrin, L., Birkeland, N.-K., and Bernander, R. (2002) Chromosome replication patterns in the hyperthermophilic euryarchaea Archaeoglobus fulgidus and Methanocaldococcus (Methanococcus) jannaschii. Mol Microbiol 45: 1443-1450.
24. Mascarenhas, J., Soppa, J., Strunnikov, A.V., and Graumann, P.L. (2002) Cell cycle-dependent localization of two novel prokaryotic chromosome segregation and condensation proteins in Bacillus subtilis that interact with SMC protein. EMBO J 21: 3108-3118.
25. Matsunaga, F., Forterre, P., Ishino, Y., and Myllykallio, H. (2001) In vivo interactions of archaeal Cdc6/Orc1 and minichromosome maintenance proteins with the replication origin. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98: 11152-11157.
26. Mittenhuber, G. (2001) Comparative genomics of prokaryotic GTP-binding proteins (the Era, Obg, EngA, ThdF (TrmE), YchF and YihA families) and their relationship to eukaryotic GTP-binding proteins (the DRG, ARF, RAB, RAN, RAS and RHO families). J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 3: 21-35.
27. Møller-Jensen, J., Jensen, R.B., Löwe, J., and Gerdes, K. (2002) Prokaryotic DNA segregation by an actin-like filament. EMBO J 21: 3119-3127.
28. Myllykallio, H., Lopez, P., López-García, P., Heilig, R., Saurin, W., Zivanovic, Y., et al. (2000) Bacterial mode of replication with eukaryotic-like machinery in a hyperthermophilic archaeon. Science 288: 2212-2215.
29. Ng, W.V., Kennedy, S.P., Mahairas, G.G., Berquist, B., Pan, M., Shukla, H.D., et al. (2000) Genome sequence of Halobacterium species NRC-1. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97: 12176-12181.
30. Nordström, K., and Wagner, E.G. (1994) Kinetic aspects of control of plasmid replication by antisense RNA. Trends Biochem Sci 19: 294-300.
31. Okamoto, S., and Ochi, K. (1998) An essential GTP-binding protein functions as a regulator for differentiation in Streptomyces coelicolor. Mol Microbiol 30: 107-119.
32. Poplawski, A., and Bernander, R. (1997) Nucleoid structure and distribution in thermophilic archaea. J Bacteriol 179: 7625-7630.
33. Schattner, P. (2002) Searching for RNA genes using base-composition statistics. Nucleic Acids Res 30: 2076-2082.
34. Schenker, T., Lach, C., Kessler, B., Calderara, S., and Trueb, B. (1994) A novel GTP-binding protein which is selectively repressed in SV40 transformed fibroblasts. J Biol Chem 269: 25447-25453.
35. B. J Bacteriol 181: 4653-4660.
36. She, Q., Singh, R.K., Confalonieri, F., Zivanovic, Y., Allard, G., Awayez, M.J., et al. (2001) The complete genome of the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98: 7835-7840.
37. Soppa, J. (2001) Prokaryotic structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) proteins: distribution, phylogeny, and comparison with MukBs and additional prokaryotic and eukaryotic coiled-coil proteins. Gene 278: 253-264.
38. Soppa, J., Kobayashi, K., Noirot-Gros, M.-F., Oesterhelt, D., Ehrlich, S.D., Dervyn, E., et al. (2002) Discovery of two novel families of proteins that are proposed to interact with prokaryotic SMC proteins, and characterization of the Bacillus subtilis family members ScpA and ScpB. Mol Microbiol 45: 59-71.
39. Tang, T.-H., Bachellerie, J.-P., Rozhdestvensky, T., Bortolin, M.-L., Huber, H., Drungowski, M., et al. (2002) Identification of 86 candidates for small non-messenger RNAs from the archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99: 7536-7541.
40. Tetart, F., and Bouche, J.-P. (1992) Regulation of the expression of the cell-cycle gene ftsZ by DicF antisense RNA. Division does not require a fixed number of FtsZ molecules. Mol Microbiol 6: 615-620.
41. White, M.F., and Bell, S.D. (2002) Holding it together: chromatin in the Archaea. Trends Genet 18: 621-626.
42. Woese, C.R., Kandler, O., and Wheelis, M.L. (1990) Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 87: 4576-4579.