Keeping the Wolves at Bay: Antitoxins of Prokaryotic Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Systems [PDF]
, 2016 In their initial stages of discovery, prokaryotic toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems were confined to bacterial plasmids where they function to mediate the maintenance and stability of usually low- to medium-copy number plasmids through the post-segregational ...
Chan, Wai Ting +2 more
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A Conviviality Measure for Early Requirement Phase [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper, we consider the design of convivial multi-agent systems. Conviviality has recently been proposed as a social concept to develop multi-agent systems.
Caire, Patrice, van der Torre, Leendert
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Complete Assembly of the Genome of an Acidovorax citrulli Strain Reveals a Naturally Occurring Plasmid in This Species [PDF]
, 2019 Acidovorax citrulli is the causal agent of bacterial fruit blotch (BFB), a serious threat to cucurbit crop production worldwide. Based on genetic and phenotypic properties, A.
Chen, Gong +6 more
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Transcriptional cross-activation between toxin-antitoxin systems of Escherichia coli [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Bacterial toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are formed by potent regulatory or suicide factors (toxins) and their short-lived inhibitors (antitoxins). Antitoxins are DNA-binding proteins and auto-repress transcription of TA operons.
Niilo Kaldalu +3 more
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Toxin-Antitoxic Loci vapBC-1 and vapXD Contribute to Survival and Virulence in Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae [PDF]
, 2012 Background: Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a significant human pathogen responsible for respiratory tract infections and the most common cause of recurrent otitis media.
Daines, Dayle A. +2 more
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Genomic analysis of Acidianus hospitalis W1 a host for studying crenarchaeal virus and plasmid life cycles [PDF]
, 2011 The Acidianus hospitalis W1 genome consists of a minimally sized chromosome of about 2.13 Mb and a conjugative plasmid pAH1 and it is a host for the model filamentous lipothrixvirus AFV1.
Garrett, Roger A +8 more
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Vector adaptive predictive coder for speech and audio [PDF]
, 1990 A real-time vector adaptive predictive coder which approximates each vector of K speech samples by using each of M fixed vectors in a first codebook to excite a time-varying synthesis filter and picking the vector that minimizes distortion.
Chen, Juin-Hwey, Gersho, Allen
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The Biochemistry of VapBC Toxin-Antitoxins [PDF]
, 2011 The VapBC toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems were first identified in 2005 and little is known about their contemporary biological function, despite the fact that VapBC TAs are the largest TA family and are widespread in bacteria and archaea (Arcus, Rainey ...
McKenzie, Joanna Leigh
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The pathophysiology of motor thalamus [PDF]
, 2007 The thalamus is considered an important structure of sensitive pathways, and also intervenes in motor tasks. It receives multiple cortical and subcortical afferent fibers and the relations between their different nuclei are intense.
Ladera Fernandez, Valentina +1 more
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Speech coding at 4800 bps for mobile satellite communications [PDF]
A speech compression project has recently been completed to develop a speech coding algorithm suitable for operation in a mobile satellite environment aimed at providing telephone quality natural speech at 4.8 kbps.
Chan, Wai-Yip +4 more
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