Haloarchaea and Haloviruses| MIKE DYALL-SMITH'S RESEARCH
HALOARCHAEA PUBLICATIONS - MDS
Wende, A., Johansson, P., Vollrath, R., Dyall-Smith, M., Oesterhelt, D. and Grininger, M. (2010) Structural and biochemical characterization of a halophilic archaeal alkaline phosphatase J Mol Biol (in press)
Burns, David G., Peter H. Janssen, Takashi Itoh, Masahiro Kamekura, Akinobu Echigo and Mike L. Dyall-Smith. (2010) Halonotius pteroides gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon recovered from a saltern crystallizer in southern Australia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 60: 1196 - 1199 (doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.010017-0)
Burns, David G., Peter H. Janssen, Takashi Itoh, Hiroaki Minegishi, Ron Usami, Masahiro Kamekura, and Mike L. Dyall-Smith.(2010) Natronomonas moolapensis sp. nov., two non-alkaliphilic isolates recovered from a solar saltern crystallizer pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 60: 1173 - 1176 ( doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.010132-0)
Dickson Oh, Kate Porter, Brendan Russ, David Burns and Mike Dyall-Smith (2010) Diversity of Haloquadratum and other haloarchaea in three, geographically distant, Australian saltern crystallizer ponds. Extremophiles 14: 161-169. (online 20 Dec, 2009) [background]
Ken Stedman, Kate Porter and Mike Dyall-Smith (2009) The isolation of viruses infecting Archaea Manual of Aquatic Viral Ecology Chapter 6, 57–64 (pub. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Inc.)
Porter K and Dyall-Smith ML. (2008) Transfection of haloarchaea by the DNAs of spindle and round haloviruses and the use of transposon mutagenesis to identify non-essential regions. Molecular Microbiology 70:1236-45.
Porter K, Russ BE, Ji Y, Dyall-Smith ML. (2008) The transcription program of the protein-primed halovirus SH1. Microbiology 154: 3599 – 3608.
Porter K, Russ BE, Dyall-Smith ML. (2007) Virus-host interactions in salt lakes. Curr Opin Microbiol. 10:418-424.
Burns, D. G., P. H. Janssen, T. Itoh, M. Kamekura, Z., Li, G. Jensen, F. E. Rodriguez-Valera, H. Bolhuis and M. L. Dyall-Smith. (2007) Haloquadratum walsbyi gen. nov., sp. nov., the square haloarchaeon of Walsby, isolated from saltern crystallizers in Australia and Spain. IJSEM 57: 387-392.
Porter, K, Russ, B., Thorburn, A. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. Viruses infecting Euryarchaeota. In, Encyclopedia of Virology (3rd ed.), pp. 411-423, 2008. Elsevier.
(ISBN 978-0-12-373935-3) (doi:10.1016/B978-012374410-4.00762-7)
Dyall-Smith, ML, and Oren, A. (2006) Letter to the Editor: Culture-dependent study of microbial diversity of Lake Chaka. (2006) Appl Env Microbiol 72:7427 [pdf] [prev.abstrcts: 1, 2 : lake pics 1, 2]
Burns, DG and Dyall-Smith, ML. Cultivation of Haloarchaea. In, Extremophiles. (2006) Methods in Microbiology 35:535-552 (ed. A. Oren, F. Rainey). Academic Press / Elsevier ISBN: 0-12-521537-1
Porter, K., and Dyall Smith, M. (2006) The isolation and study of viruses of halophilic microorganisms. In, Extremophiles (2006) Methods in Microbiology 35:681-702 (ed. A. Oren, F. Rainey). Academic Press / Elsevier ISBN: 0-12-521537-1
Bath, C., Cukalac, T., Porter, K. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (2006). His1 and His2 are distantly related, spindle-shaped haloviruses belonging to the novel virus group, Salterprovirus. Virology 350: 228-239.
Dyall-Smith, ML, Burns, DG, Camakaris, HM, Janssen, PH, Russ, BE and Porter, K. (2005) Haloviruses and their hosts. Recent progress in the cultivation of haloarchaea, including square haloarchaea of Walsby, and the isolation of novel haloarchaeal viruses. In, Adaptation To Life at High Salt Concentrations in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya (ed. Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Aharon Oren and Ana Plemenita), Series: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, volume 9, p555-563, Springer-Dordrecht. ISBN 1402036329
Bamford, D. H., J. J. Ravantti, et al. (2005). Constituents of SH1, a novel membrane-containing virus infecting the halophilic euryarchaeon Haloarcula hispanica. J Virol 79(14): 9097-9107.
Porter, K., Kukkaro, P., Bamford, J.K.H., Bath, C., Kivelä, H.M., Dyall-Smith, M.L. and Bamford, D.H. (2005) SH1: a novel, spherical halovirus isolated from an Australian hypersaline lake. Virology 335:22-33. [more on SH1 and where it was isolated ]
Burns, D.G., Camakaris, H.M., Janssen, P.H. and Dyall-Smith, M. (2004) Cultivation of Walsby’s square haloarchaeon. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 238(2):469-473.[abstract] [web page] Published online, 21 August 2004; in print, Sept, 2004.
Burns, D.G., Camakaris, H.M., Janssen, P.H. and Dyall-Smith, M. (2004) Combined use of cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent methods indicates that members of most haloarchaeal groups in an Australian crystalliser pond are cultivable. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70(9): 5258-5265. Published 1 Sept, 2004. [abstract]
Tang, S., Nuttall and Dyall-Smith, M. 2004. Haloviruses HF1 and HF2: evidence for a recent and large recombination event. J. Bacteriol. 186: 2810-2817. [pdf]
Dyall-Smith, M., S. L. Tang, and C. Bath. 2003. Haloarchaeal viruses: how diverse are they? Res Microbiol 154:309-13. [abstract][pdf-proof]
Danson, M.J., Morgan, D.J., Jeffries, A.C., Hough, D.W. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (2003). Multienzyme complexes in the Archaea: Predictions from genome sequences. In, Halophilic Microorganisms, A. Ventosa (ed.), chpt 11, p177-191. Springer, Berlin.
Tang, S-L, Fisher, C., Ngui, K., Nuttall, S.D. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (2003). Genome sequences of the head-tail haloviruses HF1 and HF2. In, Halophilic Microorganisms, A. Ventosa (ed.), chpt 17, p255-262. Springer, Berlin. [authors1, authors2 ] [genome]
Gutierrez, MC, Kamekura, M, Holmes, ML, Dyall-Smith, ML and Ventosa, A. (2002) Taxonomic characterization of Haloferax sp. ("H. alicantei") strain Aa 2.2: description of Haloferax lucentensis sp. nov. Extremophiles 6: 479-483.
Tang, S. L., S. Nuttall, K. Ngui, C. Fisher, P. Lopez, and M. Dyall-Smith. 2002. HF2: a double-stranded DNA tailed haloarchaeal virus with a mosaic genome. Mol Microbiol 44:283-296. [authors1, authors2 ] [pdf] [genome]
[pic: HF2 virions, stained with uranyl acetate ]
Dyall-Smith, ML and Danson, M. (2001) Life of Brine: halophiles in 2001. (meeting report of Halophiles 2001 conference). Genome Biology 2(12):reports 4033.1-4033.3 [pdf] [web-link][see pictures of this meeting - MDS]
Wendoloski, Ferrer, C. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (2001) A new simvastatin (mevinolin)-resistance marker from Haloarcula hispanica and a new Hfx. volcanii strain cured of plasmid pHV2. Microbiology 147: 959-964. [pdf]
[pic: Har. hispanica colony after several weeks >]
Holmes, M.L. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (2000) Sequence and expression of a halobacterial beta-galactosidase gene. Molecular Microbiology 36: 114-122. [pdf]
[pic: Hfx. volcanii transformed with a bgaH containing plasmid. wt is below. Xgal spray]
Tarasov, V.Y., Pyatibratov, M.G., Tang, S-L., Dyall-Smith, M., and Fedorov, O.V. (2000) Role of flagellins from A and B loci in flagella formation of Halobacterium salinarum. Molec. Microbiol. 35: 69-78. [pdf]
Nuttall, S.D., Deutschel, S.E., Irving, R.A., Serrano-Gomicia, J.A. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (2000) The ShBle resistance determinant is expressed in Haloferax volcanii and confers resistance to bleomycin. Bioch. J. 346:251-254. [pdf]
Woods, WG., Ngui, K, and Dyall-Smith, ML. An Improved transposon for the halophilic Archaeon Haloarcula hispanica. J. Bacteriol. 1999. 181:7140-7142. [pdf]
Ventosa A, Gutierrez MC, Kamekura M, Dyall-Smith ML (1999) Proposal to transfer Halococcus turkmenicus, Halobacterium trapanicum JCM 9743 and strain GSL-11 to Haloterrigena turkmenica gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 49:131-136. [pdf]
Danson, M.J., K.A. Jolley, D.G. Maddocks, M.L. Dyall-Smith, D.W. Hough. (1998) New insights into the molecular enzymology of pyruvate metabolism in the halophilic Archaea . Chpt. 19, p239-248. In A. Oren (Ed.): Microbiology and Biogeochemistry of hypersaline environments., CRC Press, Boca Raton.
Holmes, M. and Dyall-Smith, M. (1998) Cloning, sequence and heterolgous expression of bgaH, a beta-galactosidase gene of "Haloferax alicantei". Chpt. 21, p265-271. In A. Oren (Ed.): Microbiology and Biogeochemistry of hypersaline environments., CRC Press, Boca Raton.
Bath C. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1998) His1, and archaeal virus of the Fuselloviridae family that infects Haloarcula hispanica. J. Virol.72:9392-9395. [pdf]
[His1 virions are spindle-shaped (left). His1 plaques (right)]
Gerike, U., Hough, D.W., Russell, N.J., Dyall-Smith, M.L. and Danson, M.J. (1998) Citrate synthase and 2-methylcitrate synthase: structural, functional and evolutionary relationships. Microbiology 144:929-935. [pdf]
Kamekura, M., Dyall-Smith, M.L., Upasani, V., Ventosa, A. and Kates, M. (1997). Diversity of alkaliphilic halobacteria. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 47: 853-857.
Woods, W.G. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1997). Construction and analysis of a recombination-deficient (radA) mutant of Haloferax volcanii. Molec. Microbiol. 23:791-797. [pdf]
Holmes, M.L., Scopes, R., Englert, C., Pfeifer, F., Moritz, R., Simpson, R. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1996) Purification of an extremely halophilic beta-galactosidase from Haloferax alicantei. Biochim. Biophys. Acta (Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology) 1337: 276-286.
Woods, W., and M. Dyall-Smith. 1996. Revised nucleotide sequence of an archaeal insertion element (ISH28) reveals a putative transposase gene. Gene. 182:219-220.
Jolley, K.A., E. Rapaport, D. W. Hough, M. J. Danson, W. G. Woods And M. L. Dyall-Smith.(1996). Dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase from the halophilic Archaeon, Haloferax volcanii : homologous over-expression of the cloned gene. J. Bacteriol. 178:3044-3048.
Kamekura, M., Seno, Y. and Dyall-Smith, M. L. (1996) Halolysin R4, a serine protease from the halophilic archaeon Haloferax mediterranei; gene cloning, expression, and structural studies. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1294:159-167.
Kamekura, M. and Dyall-Smith, ML. (1995) Taxonomy of the family Halobacteriaceae and the description of two new genera, Halorubrobacterium and Natrialba.. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 41: 333-350.
Nuttall, S.D. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1995) Halophage HF2: genome organisation and replication strategy. J. Virol. 69:2322-2327.
Holmes, M.L., Pfeifer, F. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1995) Analysis of the halobacterial plasmid pHK2 minimal replicon. Gene 153:117-121
Holmes, M.L., Pfeifer, F. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1994) Improved shuttle vectors for Haloferax volcanii including a dual-resistance plasmid. Gene 146:117-121.
Dyall-Smith, M.L. and Doolittle, W.F. (1994) Construction of composite transposons for halophilic archaebacteria (Archaea). Can. J. Microbiol.40:922-929
Forterre, P., Bergerat, A., Gadelle, D., Elie, C., Lottspeich, F., Confalonieri, F., Duguet, M., Holmes, M., and M. Dyall-Smith (1994) Evolution of DNA topoisomerases and DNA polymerases - A perspective from archaea. System. and Appl. Microbiol. 16: 746-758.
Nuttall, S.D. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1993) HF1 and HF2: Novel bacteriophages of halophilic Archaea. Virology 197:678-684.
Nuttall, S.D. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1993) Ch2, a novel halophilic archaeon from an Australian solar saltern. Int. J. Syst. Bact. 43:729-734.
Kamekura, M., Seno, Y., Holmes, M.L. and Dyall-Smith, M.L.(1992) Molecular cloning, sequencing, and expression of the gene for a halophilic alkaline serine protease, halolysin, from an unidentified halophilic archaea strain 172 P1. J.Bacteriol.174:736-742.
[picture shows transformants on milk -MGM agar]
Holmes, M.L., Nuttall, S.D. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1991) Construction and use of halobacterial shuttle vectors and further studies on Haloferax DNA gyrase.J. Bacteriol. 173:3807-3813.
Holmes, M.L. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1991) Mutations in DNA gyrase result in novobiocin resistance in halophilic archaebacteria. J Bacteriol 173:642-648.
Holmes, M.L., Olsen, G.J. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1990) The halophilic archaebacteria Hb.lacusprofundi and Hb.saccharovorum are closely related: 16S rRNA sequence comparison. Nucleic Acids Research 18:4607.
Holmes, M.L. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1990) A plasmid vector with a selectable marker for halophilic archaebacteria. J. Bacteriol. 172:756-761.
[Right: novR and wt Hfx. lucentense on novobiocin agar. We got the resistant mutant in '88 but it took some time to clone, and then to publish]
PUBLICATIONS: NON-ARCHAEA
Virology (mainly Rotavirus and Medical Bacteriology).
Tee, W., P. Midolo, P. H. Janssen, T. Kerr, and M. L. Dyall-Smith. 2001. Bacteremia due to Leptotrichia trevisanii sp. nov. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 20:765-769.
[pic at left is Gram stain of L. trevisanii. more] [taxonomy1, taxonomy2] [more about Wee Tee, ✝ 2000)
Tee, W., Janet Montgomery and Michael Dyall-Smith. Bacteremia due to a Helicobacter pullorum-like organism. (accepted 15th July, 2001). Clinical Infectious Diseases 33:1789-1791.
Chia, B. C. S., Y.-H. Lam, M. Dyall-Smith, F. Separovic and J. H. Bowie. (2000). A 31P NMR study of the interaction of amphibian antimicrobial peptides with the membranes of live bacteria. Letters in Peptide Science 7:151-156.
Schoenborn, L., Abdollahi, H., Tee, W., Dyall-Smith, M. and Janssen, P. H. 2000. Member of the delta-Proteobacteria from a pyogenic liver abscess is a typical sulfate-reducer of the genus Desulfovibrio. J. Clin. Microbiol. 39:787-790.
Tee, W., Jenney, A., McPhee, A., Mijch, A. and Dyall-Smith, M. 2000. "Helicobacter rappini" isolated from two homosexual males. Clin Inf Dis 33:e8-e11 .
Tee, W., Suzanne Hinds, Janet Montgomery, and Michael L. Dyall-Smith. 2000. A probable new species of Helicobacter isolated from a patient with bacteremia. . J. Clin. Microbiol. 38: 3846-3848.
Tee W., Korman TM., Waters MJ., Macphee A., Jenney A. Joyce L., and Dyall-Smith ML. (1998) Three cases of Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens bacteremia confirmed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. J. Clin. Microbiol. 36:1209-1213.
Tee W., Leder K., Karroum E., Dyall-Smith M. (1998) Flexispira rappini bacteremia in a child with pneumonia. J. Clin. Microbiol. 36:1679-1682.
Tee, W., Woods, W.G., Dyall-Smith, M.L. and Eisen, D. (1997) Probable new species of Desulfovibrio isolated from a pyogenic liver abscess. J. Clin. Microbiol. 34:1760-1764.
Lazdins, I., Coulson, B.S., Kirkwood, C., Dyall-Smith, M.L., Masendycz, P.J., Sonza, S., and Holmes, I.H. (1995). Rotavirus antigenicity is affected by the genetic context and glycosylation of VP7. Virology 209: 80-89.
Dyall-Smith, D.J., Trowell, H., Mark, A., and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1991) Cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas in renal transplant recipients: a clinical and molecular biological study. J. Dermatol.Sci. 2:139-146.[HPV pics]
Dyall-Smith, D.J., Trowell, H. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1991) Benign human papillomavirus infection in renal transplant recipients. Int. J. Dermatol. 30:785-789.
Reeves, P., Johnson, M., Holmes, I.H. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1990) Expression of rotavirus VP7 antigens in fusions with bacterial proteins. Res. Microbiol. 141:1019-1025.
Trowell, H.E., Dyall-Smith, D.J. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1990) Failure to detect human papillomavirus in solar keratoses of Australian patients. Int. J. Dermatol. 30:225.
Trowell, H.E., Dyall-Smith, M.L. and Dyall-Smith, D.J. (1990) Human papillomavirus associated with keratoacanthomas in Australian patients. Arch. Dermatol. 126: 1654
Huang, J., Nagesha, H.S., Dyall-Smith, M.L. and Holmes, I.H. (1989). Comparative sequence analysis of VP7 genes from five Australian porcine rotaviruses. Arch. Virol. 109:173-183.
Johnson, M., Misra, R.M., Lardelli, M., Messina, M., Ephraums, C.,Reeves, P., Bolcevik, Z., Noel, J.S., Hum, C.P., Mai H.V., Dyall-Smith, M.L., and Holmes, I.H. (1989) Synthesis in Escherichia coli of the major glycoprotein of human rotavirus: analysis of the antigenic regions. Gene 84:73-81.
Nuttall, S.D., Hum, C.P., Holmes, I.H. and Dyall-Smith, M.L. (1989) Sequencesof VP9 genes from short and super-short rotavirus strains. Virology 171: 453-457.
Kantharidis, P., Dyall-Smith, M.L., and Holmes, I.H. (1988) Nucleotide sequence of UK bovine rotavirus segment 4: possible host restriction of VP3 genes. Virology 166:308-315.
Hum, C., Dyall-Smith, M.L. and Holmes, I.H. (1988) The VP7 gene of a new G-serotype of human rotavirus is similar to G3 proteins in the antigenic C region. Virology 170:55-61.
Tee, W., Baird, R., Dyall-Smith, M.L. and Dwyer, B. (1988) Campylobacter cryaerophila isolated from a human. J. Clin. Microbiol. 26:2469-2473
Shaw, R.D., Mackow, E.R., Dyall-Smith, M.L., Lazdins, I., Holmes, I.H., and Greenberg, H.B. (1988) Serotype analysis of VP3 and VP7 neutralization escape mutants of rhesus rotavirus. J. Virol. 62: 3509-3512.
Brown, E.L., Ffrench, R.A., Gawler, J.M., Jackson, D.J., Dyall-Smith, M.L., Anders, E.M., Tregear, G.W., Duncan, L., Underwood,P.A. and White, D.O. (1987) Five distinct epitopes recognized by I-Ad restricted T cell clones within antigenic site E on the influenza virus hemagglutinin. J. Virol. 62: 305-312.
Caust, J., Dyall-Smith, M.L., Lazdins, I., and Holmes, I.H. (1987) Glycosylation, an important modifier of rotavirus antigenicity. Arch. Virol. 96:123-134.
Mark, A., Trowell, H., Dyall-Smith, M.L., and Dyall-Smith, D.J. (1987) Extraction of DNA from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded pathology specimens and its use in hybridization (histo-blot) assays. Application to the detection of human papillomavirus DNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 15:8565.
Kantharidis, P., Dyall-Smith, M.L. and Holmes, I.H. (1987) Marked sequence variation between segment 4 genes of human RV-5 and simian SA11 rotaviruses. Arch.Virol. 93:111-122.
Dyall-Smith,M.L., Lazdins,I., Tregear,G.W. and Holmes,I.H. (1986) Location of the major antigenic sites involved in rotavirus serotype-specific neutralization. Proc. Nat.Acad. Sci. (U.S.A.), 83: 3465-3468.
Ward,C.W., Azad,A.A. and Dyall-Smith,M.L. (1985) Structural homologies between RNA gene segments 10 and 11 from UK bovine, simian SA11, and human Wa rotaviruses. Virology 144: 328-326.
Lazdins,I., Sonza,S., Dyall-Smith,M.L., Coulson,B.S. and Holmes,I.H. (1985) Demonstration of an immunodominant neutralization site by analysis of antigenic variants of SA11 rotavirus. J.Virol. 56: 317-319.
Ward,C.W., Elleman,T.C., Azad,A.A. and Dyall-Smith,M.L. (1984) Nucleotide sequence of gene segment 9 encoding a nonstructural protein of UK bovine rotavirus. Virology 134: 249-253.
Dyall-Smith,M.L. and Holmes,I.H. (1984) Sequence homology between human and animal rotavirus serotype-specific glycoproteins. Nucleic Acids Res. 12: 3973-3982.
Dyall-Smith,M.L., Azad,A.A. and Holmes,I.H. (1983) Gene mapping of rotavirus double-stranded RNA segments 7,8,and 9. J.Virol. 46: 317-320.
Dyall-Smith,M.L., Elleman,T.C., Hoyne,P.A., Holmes,I.H. and Azad,A.A. (1983) Cloning and sequence of UK bovine rotavirus gene segment 7: marked sequence homology with simian rotavirus gene segment 8. Nucleic Acids Res. 11: 3351-3362.
Elleman,T.C., Hoyne,P.A., Dyall-Smith,M.L. and Azad,A.A. (1983) Nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding the serotype-specific glycoprotein of UK bovine rotavirus. Nucleic Acids Res. 11: 4689-4701.
Kantharidis,P., Dyall-Smith,M.L. and Holmes,I.H. (1983) Completion of the gene coding assignments of SA11 rotavirus: gene products of segments 7,8, and 9. J.Virol. 48: 330-334.
Dyall-Smith,M.L. and Holmes,I.H. (1981) Gene-coding assignments of rotavirus double-stranded RNA segments 10 and 11. J.Virol. 38:1099-1103.
Dyall-Smith,M.L. and Holmes,I.H. (1981) Comparisons of rotavirus polypeptides by limited proteolysis: close similarity of certain polypeptides of different strains. J.Virol. 40: 720-728.
Smith,M.L., Lazdins,I. and Holmes,I.H. (1980) Coding assignments of double-stranded RNA segments of SA11 rotavirus established by in vitro translation. J.Virol. 33: 976-982.