Nature lessons: the whitefly bacterial endosymbiont is a minimal amino acid factory with unusual energetics
Jorge Calle-Espinosa, Miguel Ponce-de-Leon, Diego Santos-Garcia, Francisco J. Silva, Francisco Montero, Juli Pereto
The paper constructs a genome-scale metabolic model of the whitefly endosymbiont to show that its energy production is linked to amino acid and carotenoid synthesis, challenging the idea that genome reduction limits biosynthetic potential.
bioRxiv · Mar 11, 2016Systems Biology