Hudson, André O.


Publications
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Genetic drift and genome reduction in the plant pathogenCandidatusLiberibacter solanacearum shapes a new enzyme in lysine biosynthesis

Citation
Gilkes et al. (2023).
Names
“Liberibacter solanacearum”
Abstract
AbstractThe effect of population bottlenecks and genome reduction on enzyme function is poorly understood. ‘CandidatusLiberibacter solanacearum’ is a bacterium with a reduced genome that is transmitted vertically to the egg of an infected psyllid—a population bottleneck that imposes genetic drift and is predicted to affect protein structure and function. Here, we define the effects of genome reduction and genetic drift on the function ofCa. L. solanacearum dihydrodipicolinate synthase (CLsoDHDPS