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Physical and Functional Compartmentalization of Archaeal Chromosomes by Takemata, Naomichi, Samson, Rachel Y., Bell, Stephen D.

“…The three-dimensional organization of chromosomes can have a profound impact on their replication and expression. The chromosomes of higher eukaryotes possess…”
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A Role for the ESCRT System in Cell Division in Archaea by Samson, Rachel Y., Obita, Takayuki, Freund, Stefan M., Williams, Roger L., Bell, Stephen D.

“…Archaea are prokaryotic organisms that lack endomembrane structures. However, a number of hyperthermophilic members of the Kingdom Crenarchaea, including…”
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Mechanism of Archaeal MCM Helicase Recruitment to DNA Replication Origins by Samson, Rachel Y., Abeyrathne, Priyanka D., Bell, Stephen D.

“…Cellular DNA replication origins direct the recruitment of replicative helicases via the action of initiator proteins belonging to the AAA+ superfamily of…”
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Chromosome organization affects genome evolution in Sulfolobus archaea by Badel, Catherine, Samson, Rachel Y., Bell, Stephen D.

“…In all organisms, the DNA sequence and the structural organization of chromosomes affect gene expression. The extremely thermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus…”
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A Complex Endomembrane System in the Archaeon Ignicoccus hospitalis Tapped by Nanoarchaeum equitans by Heimerl, Thomas, Flechsler, Jennifer, Pickl, Carolin, Heinz, Veronika, Salecker, Benjamin, Zweck, Josef, Wanner, Gerhard, Geimer, Stefan, Samson, Rachel Y, Bell, Stephen D, Huber, Harald, Wirth, Reinhard, Wurch, Louie, Podar, Mircea, Rachel, Reinhard

“…Based on serial sectioning, focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB/SEM), and electron tomography, we depict in detail the highly unusual anatomy of…”
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Specificity and Function of Archaeal DNA Replication Initiator Proteins by Samson, Rachel Y., Xu, Yanqun, Gadelha, Catarina, Stone, Todd A., Faqiri, Jamal N., Li, Dongfang, Qin, Nan, Pu, Fei, Liang, Yun Xiang, She, Qunxin, Bell, Stephen D.

“…Chromosomes with multiple DNA replication origins are a hallmark of Eukaryotes and some Archaea. All eukaryal nuclear replication origins are defined by the…”
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Molecular and Structural Basis of ESCRT-III Recruitment to Membranes during Archaeal Cell Division by Samson, Rachel Y., Obita, Takayuki, Hodgson, Ben, Shaw, Michael K., Chong, Parkson Lee-Gau, Williams, Roger L., Bell, Stephen D.

“…Members of the crenarchaeal kingdom, such as Sulfolobus, divide by binary fission yet lack genes for the otherwise near-ubiquitous tubulin and actin…”
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Functional interplay between a virus and the ESCRT machinery in Archaea by Snyder, Jamie C., Samson, Rachel Y., Brumfield, Susan K., Bell, Stephen D., Young, Mark J.

“…Recently it has been discovered that a number of eukaryotic viruses, including HIV, coopt the cellular Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport (ESCRT)…”
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MCM Loading—An Open-and-Shut Case? by Samson, Rachel Y., Bell, Stephen D.

“…Two recent studies, from Fernández-Cid et al. (2013) (this issue of Molecular Cell) and Frigola et al. (2013), have elegantly dissected key events and…”
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Capturing chromosome conformation in Crenarchaea by Pilatowski-Herzing, Elyza, Samson, Rachel Y, Takemata, Naomichi, Badel, Catherine, Bohall, Peter B, Bell, Stephen D

“…While there is a considerable body of knowledge regarding the molecular and structural biology and biochemistry of archaeal information processing machineries,…”
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Evolution and assembly of ESCRTs by Ghazi-Tabatabai, Sara, Obita, Takayuki, Pobbati, Ajaybabu V, Perisic, Olga, Samson, Rachel Y, Bell, Stephen D, Williams, Roger L

“…The AAA (ATPase associated with various cellular activities) proteins participate in membrane trafficking, organelle biogenesis, DNA replication, intracellular…”
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Analysis of the Archaeal ESCRT Apparatus by Samson, Rachel Y, Duggin, Iain G, Bell, Stephen D

“…Members of the archaeal domain of life that lack homologs of actin and tubulin divide by binary fission in a process that is dependent upon orthologs of…”
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Electron cryotomography of ESCRT assemblies and dividing Sulfolobus cells suggests that spiraling filaments are involved in membrane scission by Dobro, Megan J, Samson, Rachel Y, Yu, Zhiheng, McCullough, John, Ding, H Jane, Chong, Parkson Lee-Gau, Bell, Stephen D, Jensen, Grant J

“…The endosomal-sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) is evolutionarily conserved from Archaea to eukaryotes. The complex drives membrane scission…”
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Ancient ESCRTs and the evolution of binary fission by Samson, Rachel Y, Bell, Stephen D

“…Eukaryotic and prokaryotic orthologs of tubulin play key roles in DNA segregation and cell division processes. Remarkably, recent studies have revealed that…”
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Archaeal chromatin proteins histone HMtB and Alba have lost DNA-binding ability in laboratory strains of Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus by Sandman, Kathleen, Louvel, Hélène, Samson, Rachel Y, Pereira, Suzette L, Reeve, John N

“…Alignments of the sequences of the all members of the archaeal histone and Alba1 families of chromatin proteins identified isoleucine residues, I19 in HMtB and…”
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Cell cycles and cell division in the archaea by Samson, Rachel Y, Bell, Stephen D

“…Highlights ► Chromosome copy number varies dramatically across the archaea. ► Sulfolobus has post-replicative sister chromatid cohesion. ► Replication…”
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Archaeal chromosome biology by Samson, Rachel Y, Bell, Stephen D

“…Knowledge of the chromosome biology of archaeal species has grown considerably in the last 15 years, since the publication of the first full archaeal genome…”
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Cell cycles and cell division in the archaea : Archaea by SAMSON, Rachel Y, BELL, Stephen D

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The regulated recruitment of the MCM helicase to origins of replication by Samson, Rachel Y

“…DNA replication origins in all cellular organisms are defined by initiator proteins belonging to the AAA+ superfamily of ATPases. In eukaryotes, it is…”
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