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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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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 of Staphylococcus aureus [PDF]
Toxins, 2016 Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are small genetic elements found in the majority of prokaryotes. They encode toxin proteins that interfere with vital cellular functions and are counteracted by antitoxins.
Bertram, R, Schuster, CF
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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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Toxin-Antitoxin Systems as Multilevel Interaction Systems [PDF]
Toxins, 2014 Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are small genetic modules usually composed of a toxin and an antitoxin counteracting the activity of the toxic protein. These systems are widely spread in bacterial and archaeal genomes.
Nathalie Goeders, Laurence Van Melderen
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Toxin-antitoxins and bacterial virulence [PDF]
FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2016 Bacterial virulence relies on a delicate balance of signals interchanged between the invading microbe and the host. This communication has been extensively perceived as a battle involving harmful molecules produced by the pathogen and host defenses. In this review, we focus on a largely unexplored element of this dialogue, as are toxin-antitoxin (TA ...
Lobato-Márquez, D +2 more
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Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Clinical Pathogens [PDF]
Toxins, 2016 Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are prevalent in bacteria and archaea. Although not essential for normal cell growth, TA systems are implicated in multiple cellular functions associated with survival under stress conditions. Clinical strains of bacteria are currently causing major human health problems as a result of their multidrug resistance ...
Fernández-García, Laura +6 more
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Conditional cooperativity of toxin - antitoxin regulation can mediate bistability between growth and dormancy. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2013 Many toxin-antitoxin operons are regulated by the toxin/antitoxin ratio by mechanisms collectively coined "conditional cooperativity". Toxin and antitoxin form heteromers with different stoichiometric ratios, and the complex with the intermediate ratio ...
Ilaria Cataudella +3 more
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Toxin-antitoxin systems in bacterial pathogenesis. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Toxin-Antitoxin (TA) systems are abundant in prokaryotes and play an important role in various biological processes such as plasmid maintenance, phage inhibition, stress response, biofilm formation, and dormant persister cell generation. TA loci are abundant in pathogenic intracellular micro-organisms and help in their adaptation to the harsh host ...
Sonika S, Singh S, Mishra S, Verma S.
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