 The β-sandwich domains are structurally similar not only to each other but also to other proteins associated with envelope structures of disparate species including bacterial, fungal, and viral entities.While the structure of only one of the two DUF1608 domains of the MA0829 protein was determined the structure of the full-length MA0829 tandem DUF1608 repeat protein (minus the N-terminal signal peptide and C-terminal tether and anchor) could be modeled by virtue of the MA0829 CTR forming the same crystallographic dimer in two different crystal forms.The high degree of primary amino acid sequence identity between the N- and C-terminal DUF1608 domains (79% identical and 87% similar) allowed the homology modeling of the N-terminal DUF1608 amino acid sequence onto one of the DUF1608 domains in the crystallographic DUF1608 CTR dimer thus providing the first high-resolution model of an Archaeal S-layer protein.