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Research by a Rochester Institute of Technology scientist may lead to development of a block for an algae toxin that suffocates non-human life in the water, including the Great Lakes.
Andre Hudson of RIT made what could be a breakthrough discovery while conducting research with fellow scientists at the school. Some strains of algae produce toxins lethal to wildlife, fish and plants. Even less harmful varieties of the toxin suck oxygen out of water, suffocating living creatures in lakes, ponds, pools and aquariums. Recent algal blooms in the Great Lakes, for instance, threaten critical ecosystems. Hudson and colleagues say they have figured out how to outsmart the organism. Hudson was furthering research he performed in 2006 when he was a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University. He had found a new pathway for lysine synthesis in plants and certain pathogenic bacteria. His current research is aimed at finding targets for the enzymes associated with the lysine biosynthesis pathways. He has concluded that humans do not possess any of the enzymatic machinery to make lysine, although it is an essential enzyme in all photosynthetic organisms. He now believes it is possible to develop a compound to block the enzyme from functioning in algae.
Andre Hudson of RIT made what could be a breakthrough discovery while conducting research with fellow scientists at the school. Some strains of algae produce toxins lethal to wildlife, fish and plants. Even less harmful varieties of the toxin suck oxygen out of water, suffocating living creatures in lakes, ponds, pools and aquariums. Recent algal blooms in the Great Lakes, for instance, threaten critical ecosystems. Hudson and colleagues say they have figured out how to outsmart the organism. Hudson was furthering research he performed in 2006 when he was a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University. He had found a new pathway for lysine synthesis in plants and certain pathogenic bacteria. His current research is aimed at finding targets for the enzymes associated with the lysine biosynthesis pathways. He has concluded that humans do not possess any of the enzymatic machinery to make lysine, although it is an essential enzyme in all photosynthetic organisms. He now believes it is possible to develop a compound to block the enzyme from functioning in algae.
Research by a Rochester Institute of Technology scientist may lead to development of a block for an algae toxin that suffocates non-human life in the water, including the Great Lakes.
Andre Hudson of RIT made what could be a breakthrough discovery while conducting research with fellow scientists at the school. Some strains of algae produce toxins lethal to wildlife, fish and plants. Even less harmful varieties of the toxin suck oxygen out of water, suffocating living creatures in lakes, ponds, pools and aquariums. Recent algal blooms in the Great Lakes, for instance, threaten critical ecosystems. Hudson and colleagues say they have figured out how to outsmart the organism. Hudson was furthering research he performed in 2006 when he was a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University. He had found a new pathway for lysine synthesis in plants and certain pathogenic bacteria. His current research is aimed at finding targets for the enzymes associated with the lysine biosynthesis pathways. He has concluded that humans do not possess any of the enzymatic machinery to make lysine, although it is an essential enzyme in all photosynthetic organisms. He now believes it is possible to develop a compound to block the enzyme from functioning in algae.
Andre Hudson of RIT made what could be a breakthrough discovery while conducting research with fellow scientists at the school. Some strains of algae produce toxins lethal to wildlife, fish and plants. Even less harmful varieties of the toxin suck oxygen out of water, suffocating living creatures in lakes, ponds, pools and aquariums. Recent algal blooms in the Great Lakes, for instance, threaten critical ecosystems. Hudson and colleagues say they have figured out how to outsmart the organism. Hudson was furthering research he performed in 2006 when he was a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University. He had found a new pathway for lysine synthesis in plants and certain pathogenic bacteria. His current research is aimed at finding targets for the enzymes associated with the lysine biosynthesis pathways. He has concluded that humans do not possess any of the enzymatic machinery to make lysine, although it is an essential enzyme in all photosynthetic organisms. He now believes it is possible to develop a compound to block the enzyme from functioning in algae.
