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Regulated polyploidy in halophilic archaea.

Polymorphism and double hexamer structure in the archaeal minichromosome maintenance (MCM) helicase from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum.

Archaeal cell cycle progress.

Development of genetic methods and construction of a chromosomal glnK1 mutant in Methanosarcina mazei strain Gö1.

DNA content and nucleoid distribution in Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus.

New insertion sequences of Sulfolobus: functional properties and implications for genome evolution in hyperthermophilic archaea.

Probing the DNA kink structure induced by the hyperthermophilic chromosomal protein Sac7d.

Three-base periodicity patterns and self-similarity in whole bacterial chromosomes.

A CDC6-like factor from the archaea Sulfolobus solfataricus promotes binding of the mini-chromosome maintenance complex to DNA.

Identification and autonomous replication capability of a chromosomal replication origin from the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.

Genometric analyses of the organization of circular chromosomes: a universal pressure determines the direction of ribosomal RNA genes transcription relative to chromosome replication

Multiple origins of replication in archaea

Genome update: alignment of bacterial chromosomes.

Modular organization of a Cdc6-like protein from the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.

Anucleate and titan cell phenotypes caused by insertional inactivation of the structural maintenance of chromosomes (smc) gene in the archaeon Methanococcus voltae.

Quantifying intrachromosomal GC heterogeneity in prokaryotic genomes

The over-representation of binary DNA tracts in seven sequenced chromosomes.

Identification of two origins of replication in the single chromosome of the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.

Comparative analysis of a genome fragment of an uncultivated mesopelagic crenarchaeote reveals multiple horizontal gene transfers.

Substrate requirements for duplex DNA translocation by the eukaryal and archaeal minichromosome maintenance helicases.