Archaea identification

Hallam SJ, PR Girguis, CM Preston, PM Richardson, EF DeLong (2003) Identification of methyl coenzyme M reductase A (merA) genes associated with methane-oxidizing archaea. Appl Environ Microbiol 69 5483-5491. 

Wright, A.-D. G., Toovey, A. F., and Pimm, C. L. (2006). Molecular identification of metha-nogenic archaea from sheep in Queensland, Australia reveal more uncultured novel archaea. Anaerobe 12,134-139. 

Robbins, E. I. Bacteria and Archaea in acidic environments and a key to morphological identification. Hydrobiologia 2000,433, 61-89. 

On the whole, our present understanding of archaeal translation is far from being complete. There is a considerable dearth of information on such essential aspects of archaeal biochemistry as the structure and sequences of the aminoacyl-tRNA synthethases, the mechanism of polypeptide chain termination and release, the number and complexity of the initiation factors the possibility that the archaea may resemble eucarya in having a more complex set of initiation factors than exists in bacteria is, in fact, suggested by the identification in archaea of hypusine-containing proteins (see section 2.4). The development of efficient and accurate cell-free systems using natural messenger RNAs is an obvious priority in order to elucidate these points. 

EY. Meng, B.J. Cargile, L.M. Miller, A.J. Forbes, J.R. Johnson and N.L. Kelleher, Informatics and multiplexing of intact protein identification in bacteria and the archaea, Nature Biotechnology, 19, 952-957 (2001). 

Guimaraes MJ, Peterson D, Vicari A, et al. 1996. Identification of a novel selD homolog from Eukaryotes, Bacteria, and Archaea Is there and autoregulatory mechanism in selenocysteine metabolism Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 93 15086-15091. 

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