Cell wall structural divergence among Thermus spp.

Structural Cell Wall Proteins.

Resistance of Thermus spp. to Potassium Tellurite.

Two members of the genus Thermus were examined for their resistance to toxic inorganic compounds. They both proved to be fairly resistant to tellurite and selenite and to many other heavy metal salts. Cell extracts of Thermus thermophilus HB8 and of T. flavus AT-62 catalyze the reduction of K(2)TeO(3) in a reaction which is dependent on NADH oxidation.

Noncanonical cell-to-cell DNA transfer in Thermus spp. is insensitive to argonaute-mediated interference.

Horizontal gene transfer drives the rapid evolution of bacterial populations. Classical processes that promote the lateral flow of genetic information are conserved throughout the prokaryotic world. However, some species have nonconserved transfer mechanisms that are not well known. This is the case for the ancient extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilus. In this work, we show that T. thermoph...

Structural Divergence in Dialogue

It is often observed that people tend to match each others body movements, speech style, and patterns of language use during conversation (Giles Coupland and Coupland, 1991). Recently, it has been proposed that ‘structural priming’ should be added to this list (Pickering and Ferreira, 2008). Structural priming occurs when processing of a linguistic structure is facilitated by prior exposure to ...

Structural divergence of plant TCTPs

The Translationally Controlled Tumor Protein (TCTP) is a highly conserved protein at the level of sequence, considered to play an essential role in the regulation of growth and development in eukaryotes. However, this function has been inferred from studies in a few model systems, such as mice and mammalian cell lines, Drosophila and Arabidopsis. Thus, the knowledge regarding this protein is fa...