Functional and Comparative Genomic Analysis of Integrated Prophage-Like Sequences in "Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus".

ABSTRACT: Huanglongbing disease (HLB; yellow shoot disease) is a severe worldwide infectious disease for citrus family plants. The pathogen "Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus" is an alphaproteobacterium of the Rhizobiaceae family that has been identified as the causative agent of HLB. The virulence of "Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus" has been attributed, in part, to prophage-carried genes. Prophage and prophage-like elements have been identified in 12 of the 15 available "Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus" genomes and are classified into three prophage types. Here, we reexamined all 15 "Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus" genomes using a de novo prediction approach and expanded the number of prophage-like elements from 16 to 33. Further, we found that all of the "Ca. Li

SUBMITTER: Dominguez-Mirazo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6854039 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature