Publications by authors named "Meredith Yeary"
is a ubiquitous plant pathogen, infecting both woody and herbaceous plants and resulting in devastating agricultural crop losses. Characterized by a remarkable specificity for plant hosts, pathovars utilize a number of virulence factors including the type III secretion system and effector proteins to elicit disease in a particular host species. Here, two strains were isolated from diseased seeds.
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- Scientists are trying to modify the bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii to break down benzoate by expressing genes from the archaeon Ferroglobus placidus that are involved in this process.
- The researchers successfully expressed a benzoyl-CoA ligase gene and a synthetic 6-gene operon related to benzoate degradation, but faced challenges with inconsistent protein production and no actual degradation of benzoate by the engineered strains.
- They suggest that using different ribosome binding sites and promoters, as well as incorporating more pathway genes, could improve the expression and activity of the benzoate degradation pathway in the bacteria.