TACK Superphylum and Lokiarchaeota Evolution: Dissecting the Ecology and Evolution of Archaea to Elucidate the Prokaryote to Eukaryote Transition

Project Information

TACKLE

Grant agreement ID: 695192

DOI 10.3030/695192

Project closed

EC signature date 28 July 2016

Start date 1 August 2016

End date 31 July 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 500 000,00

EU contribution € 2 500 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

Comparative CRISPR type III-based knockdown of essential genes in hyperthermophilic Sulfolobales and the evasion of lethal gene silencing

Author(s): Isabelle Anna Zink, Thomas Fouqueau, Gabriel Tarrason Risa, Finn Werner, Buzz Baum, Udo Bläsi, Christa Schleper
Published in: RNA Biology, Issue 18/3, 2021, Page(s) 421-434, ISSN 1547-6286
Publisher: Landes Bioscience
DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2020.1813411

Ancestral Reconstructions Decipher Major Adaptations of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea upon Radiation into Moderate Terrestrial and Marine Environments

Author(s): Sophie S. Abby, Melina Kerou, Christa Schleper
Published in: mBio, Issue 11/5, 2020, ISSN 2150-7511
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02371-20

Genome wide transcriptomic analysis of the soil ammonia oxidizing archaeon Nitrososphaera viennensis upon exposure to copper limitation

Author(s): Carolina Reyes, Logan H. Hodgskiss, Melina Kerou, Thomas Pribasnig, Sophie S. Abby, Barbara Bayer, Stephan M. Kraemer, Christa Schleper
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 14/11, 2020, Page(s) 2659-2674, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-0715-2

CRISPR-mediated gene silencing reveals involvement of the archaeal S-layer in cell division and virus infection

Author(s): Isabelle Anna Zink, Kevin Pfeifer, Erika Wimmer, Uwe B. Sleytr, Bernhard Schuster, Christa Schleper
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12745-x

Nitrogen Isotope Fractionation During Archaeal Ammonia Oxidation: Coupled Estimates From Measurements of Residual Ammonium and Accumulated Nitrite

Author(s): Maria Mooshammer, Ricardo J. E. Alves, Barbara Bayer, Michael Melcher, Michaela Stieglmeier, Lara Jochum, Simon K.-M. R. Rittmann, Margarete Watzka, Christa Schleper, Gerhard J. Herndl, Wolfgang Wanek
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 1664302X, 2020, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01710

A phylogenetic and proteomic reconstruction of eukaryotic chromatin evolution

Author(s): Xavier Grau-Bové, Cristina Navarrete, Cristina Chiva, Thomas Pribasnig, Meritxell Antó, Guifré Torruella, Luis Javier Galindo, Bernd Franz Lang, David Moreira, Purificación López-Garcia, Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, Christa Schleper, Eduard Sabidó & Arnau Sebé-Pedrós
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 2397334X, 2022, Page(s) 1007-1023, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature Ecology & Evolution
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01771-6

Proteomics and comparative genomics of Nitrososphaera viennensis reveal the core genome and adaptations of archaeal ammonia oxidizers

Author(s): Melina Kerou, Pierre Offre, Luis Valledor, Sophie S. Abby, Michael Melcher, Matthias Nagler, Wolfram Weckwerth, Christa Schleper
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 113/49, 2016, Page(s) E7937-E7946, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1601212113

Chemotaxonomic characterisation of the thaumarchaeal lipidome

Author(s): Felix J. Elling, Martin Könneke, Graeme W. Nicol, Michaela Stieglmeier, Barbara Bayer, Eva Spieck, José R. de la Torre, Kevin W. Becker, Michael Thomm, James I. Prosser, Gerhard J. Herndl, Christa Schleper, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
Published in: Environmental Microbiology, Issue 19/7, 2017, Page(s) 2681-2700, ISSN 1462-2912
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13759

Unifying the global phylogeny and environmental distribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea based on amoA genes

Author(s): Ricardo J. Eloy Alves, Bui Quang Minh, Tim Urich, Arndt von Haeseler, Christa Schleper
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 9/1, 2018, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03861-1

Candidatus Nitrosocaldus cavascurensis, an Ammonia Oxidizing, Extremely Thermophilic Archaeon with a Highly Mobile Genome

Author(s): Sophie S. Abby, Michael Melcher, Melina Kerou, Mart Krupovic, Michaela Stieglmeier, Claudia Rossel, Kevin Pfeifer, Christa Schleper
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 9, 2018, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00028

Ammonia Oxidation by the Arctic Terrestrial Thaumarchaeote Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus arcticus Is Stimulated by Increasing Temperatures

Author(s): Ricardo J. Eloy Alves, Melina Kerou, Anna Zappe, Romana Bittner, Sophie S. Abby, Heiko A. Schmidt, Kevin Pfeifer, Christa Schleper
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 10, 2019, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01571

Metagenomes from Coastal Marine Sediments Give Insights into the Ecological Role and Cellular Features of Loki - and Thorarchaeota

Author(s): Lokeshwaran Manoharan, Jessica A. Kozlowski, Robert W. Murdoch, Frank E. Löffler, Filipa L. Sousa, Christa Schleper
Published in: mBio, Issue 10/5, 2019, ISSN 2150-7511
Publisher: ASM
DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02039-19

Heavily Armed Ancestors: CRISPR Immunity and Applications in Archaea with a Comparative Analysis of CRISPR Types in Sulfolobales

Author(s): Isabelle Anna Zink, Erika Wimmer, Christa Schleper
Published in: Biomolecules, Issue 10/11, 2020, Page(s) 1523, ISSN 2218-273X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom10111523

Microbial diversity of a closed salt lagoon in the Puertecitos area, Upper Gulf of California

Author(s): Jessica A Kozlowski, Markes E Johnson, Jorge Ledesma-Vasquez, Daniel Birgel, Jörn Peckmann, Christa Schleper
Published in: Ciencias Marinas, Issue 23959053, 2018, Page(s) 71-90, ISSN 2395-9053
Publisher: Ciencias Marinas
DOI: 10.7773/cm.v44i2.2825

Linking 16S rRNA Gene Classification to amoA Gene Taxonomy Reveals Environmental Distribution of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeal Clades in Peatland Soils

Author(s): Haitao Wang, Alexandre Bagnoud, Rafael I. Ponce-Toledo, Melina Kerou, Micha Weil, Christa Schleper, Tim Urich
Published in: mSystems, Issue 23795077, 2021, Page(s) e00546-21, ISSN 2379-5077
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00546-21

Comparative Proteomics of Three Species of Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria

Author(s): Jackie K. Zorz, Jessica A. Kozlowski, Lisa Y. Stein, Marc Strous, Manuel Kleiner
Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology, Issue 1664302X, 2018, ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00938

Genomes of Thaumarchaeota from deep sea sediments reveal specific adaptations of three independently evolved lineages.

Author(s): Melina Kerou, Rafael I. Ponce-Toledo, Rui Zhao, Sophie S. Abby, Miho Hirai, Hidetaka Nomaki, Yoshihiro Takaki, Takuro Nunoura, Steffen L. Jørgensen & Christa Schleper
Published in: Genomes of Thaumarchaeota from deep sea sediments reveal specific adaptations of three independently evolved lineages, Issue 17517370, 2021, Page(s) 2792-2808, ISSN 1751-7370
Publisher: The ISME Journal (ISME J)
DOI: 10.1038/s41396-021-00962-6