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SUBMITTER: Zhang C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6249222 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20181121 1
Sulfolobus islandicus is a model microorganism in the TACK superphylum of the Archaea, a key lineage in the evolutionary history of cells. Here we report a genome-wide identification of the repertoire of genes essential to S. islandicus growth in culture. We confirm previous targeted gene knockouts, uncover the non-essentiality of functions assumed to be essential to the Sulfolobus cell, including the proteinaceous S-layer, and highlight essential genes whose functions are yet to be determined. ...[more]