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Andre Hudson  
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Andre O. Hudson
Assistant Professor

Email: aohsbi@rit.edu
Phone 585-475-4259

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Rutgers University
  • B.S., Virginia Union University

Areas of Interest

  • Amino acid metabolism
  • Bacterial-Plant interaction

Current research projects

  • Characterization of a novel lysine anabolic pathway
  • Bacterial-plant interaction as it pertains to signal sensing
  • Analysis of T-DNA and Tn5 insertion mutants in Arabidopsis and bacteria respectively that play a role in signal production and signal sensing

Publications

1 Hudson, AO, Gilvarg C and Leustek T. (2008) Biochemical and phylogenetic characterization of a novel diaminopimelate biosynthesis pathway in prokaryotes identifies a diverged form of LL-diaminopimelate aminotransferase. Journal of Bacteriology. Vol 190. 3256-3263.

2. Martin M, Saladores P, Lambert E, Hudson AO, Lesutek T (2007). Localization of members of the γ-glutamyl transpepdidase family identifies sites of glutathione and glutathione S-conjugate hydrolysis. Plant Physiol (144) 1742-1752.

3. McCoy A, Adams N, Hudson AO, Gilvarg C, Leustek T, Maurelli A (2006) Chlamydia trachomatis CT390 is a transkingdom LL-diaminopimelate aminotransferase variant of the meso-diaminopimelate/lysine biosynthetic pathway. PNAS 103 No. 47 17909-17914.

4. Hudson, AO, Singh BK, Leustek T and Gilvarg C (2006) An L,L- diaminopimelate aminotransferase defines a novel variant of the lysine biosynthesis pathway in plants. Plant Physiol (140) 292-301.

5. Hudson, AO, Bless, C. Macedo, P. Chatterjee SP. Singh, BK. Gilvarg, C. Leustek, T. (2005). Biosynthesis of lysine in plants: evidence for a variant of the known bacterial pathways. Biochemica et Biophysica Acta. (1721) 27-36.

6. Lee, M., Martin M., Hudson A., Lee, J., Muhitch, M., Leustek, T. (2005) Methionine and threonine synthesis are limited by homoserine availability and not the activity of homoserine kinase in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal. (41) 685-696

7. Morgan, CA., Hudson, A., Konopka A, Nakatsu CH. (2002) Analyses of microbial activity in biomass-recycle reactors using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of 16S rDNA and 16S rRNA PCR products. Can. J. Microbiol. (48) 333-341