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An oxygen-sensitive toxin–antitoxin system [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 Classical toxin–antitoxin systems in bacteria are based on silencing of a toxin by an antitoxin that, when inactivated, releases the toxin, resulting in a change in metabolism. Here, the authors characterize an oxygen-sensitive toxin–antitoxin system and
Oriol Marimon +13 more
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Chaperone addiction of toxin–antitoxin systems [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 Some bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems consist of a labile antitoxin that inhibits a toxin, and a chaperone that stabilizes the antitoxin. Here, Bordes et al.
Patricia Bordes +8 more
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Toxin–Antitoxin Systems in Pathogenic Bacteria [PDF]
Toxins, 2021 Toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems, which are ubiquitously present in plasmids, bacterial and archaeal genomes, are classified as types I to VI, according to the nature of the antitoxin and to the mode of toxin inhibition [...]
Juan C. Alonso
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Mobile Genetic Elements, 2013 Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are small genetic elements composed of a toxin gene and its cognate antitoxin. The toxins of all known TA systems are proteins while the antitoxins are either proteins or non-coding RNAs. Based on the molecular nature of the antitoxin and its mode of interaction with the toxin the TA modules are currently grouped into five ...
Simon Josef Unterholzner +2 more
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Biology and evolution of bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems [PDF]
Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 Toxin-antitoxin systems are widespread in bacterial genomes. They are usually composed of two elements: a toxin that inhibits an essential cellular process and an antitoxin that counteracts its cognate toxin. In the past decade, a number of new toxin-antitoxin systems have been described, bringing new growth inhibition mechanisms to light as well as ...
Nathan Fraikin +2 more
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Bistability in type I toxin-antitoxin systems may lead to stress-induced persister formation [PDF]
npj Systems Biology and ApplicationsAntibiotic persistence, characterized by a dormant subpopulation of bacterial cells that causes chronic and recurrent infections, remains poorly understood despite being recognized nearly a century ago. Toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems, which include a toxin
Sofija Markovic +3 more
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Toxin–Antitoxin Systems in Bacillus subtilis [PDF]
Toxins, 2019 Toxin−antitoxin (TA) systems were originally discovered as plasmid maintenance systems in a multitude of free-living bacteria, but were afterwards found to also be widespread in bacterial chromosomes.
Sabine Brantl, Peter Müller
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Regulation of toxin–antitoxin systems by proteolysis
Plasmid, 2013 Toxin-antitoxin systems are widely distributed among many bacterial species, including human pathogens. Typically, these systems consist of two genes in an operon which encodes a stable toxin disrupting essential cellular processes and a labile antitoxin preventing toxicity.
Urszula Zielenkiewicz
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Generation of a toxin/antitoxin-based counterselection marker for Chlamydia trachomatis [PDF]
Infection and ImmunityChlamydia trachomatis is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the United States. The high rate of asymptomatic cases and absence of a vaccine often leave infections untreated, increasing the risk of serious complications in ...
Eleanor Steiner +3 more
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Bioinformatic exploration reveals features of tenpIN family of type III toxin-antitoxin systems in bacteria and viruses [PDF]
Scientific ReportsToxin-antitoxin (TA) systems in bacteria consist of two genes: one encoding a toxin that inhibits essential cellular processes and the other encoding an antitoxin that neutralizes the toxin under homeostatic conditions.
Kavyashree Nadig +2 more
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