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PLoS Genetics, 2021 Biofilms are multispecies communities, in which bacteria constantly compete with one another for resources and niches. Bacteria produce many antibiotics and toxins for competition.
Kazuo Kobayashi
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IUCrJ, 2022 Type II toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems encode two proteins: a toxin that inhibits cell growth and an antitoxin that neutralizes the toxin by direct intermolecular protein–protein interactions.
Ji Sung Koo +4 more
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Shaping Pulses to Control Bistable Monotone Systems Using Koopman Operator [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper, we further develop a recently proposed control method to switch a bistable system between its steady states using temporal pulses. The motivation for using pulses comes from biomedical and biological applications (e.g.
Goncalves, Jorge +2 more
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Expression, Purification, and Functional Analysis of Novel RelE Operon from X. nematophila
The Scientific World Journal, 2014 Bacterial toxin-antitoxin (TA) complexes induce programmed cell death and also function to relieve cell from stress by various response mechanisms. Escherichia coli RelB-RelE TA complex consists of a RelE toxin functionally counteracted by RelB antitoxin.
Jitendra Singh Rathore +1 more
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sRNA Antitoxins: More than One Way to Repress a Toxin
Toxins, 2014 Bacterial toxin-antitoxin loci consist of two genes: one encodes a potentially toxic protein, and the second, an antitoxin to repress its function or expression. The antitoxin can either be an RNA or a protein.
Jia Wen, Elizabeth M. Fozo
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Nature Communications, 2022 Antimicrobial toxins are secreted by bacteria to kill rival species. Here the authors report the mechanism of inhibition of EsaD, a toxin secreted by some S.
Yongjin Wang +17 more
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Molecular Characterization of Protease Activity in Serratia sp. Strain SCBI and Its Importance in Cytotoxicity and Virulence [PDF]
, 2014 A newly recognized Serratia species, termed South African Caenorhabditis briggsae isolate (SCBI), is both a mutualist of the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae KT0001 and a pathogen of lepidopteran insects. Serratia sp.
Petersen, Lauren M., Tisa, Louis S.
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Identification of a VapBC toxin–antitoxin system in a thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27 [PDF]
, 2017 There are 12 putative toxin–antitoxin (TA) loci in the Thermus thermophilus HB27 genome, including four VapBC and three HicBA families. Expression of these seven putative toxin genes in Escherichia coli demonstrated that one putative VapC toxin TTC0125 ...
Fan Yuqi +4 more
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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 ...
Brigitte Poppenberger +2 more
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Stay or Go: Sulfolobales Biofilm Dispersal Is Dependent on a Bifunctional VapB Antitoxin
mBio, 2023 A type II VapB14 antitoxin regulates biofilm dispersal in the archaeal thermoacidophile Sulfolobus acidocaldarius through traditional toxin neutralization but also through noncanonical transcriptional regulation.
April M. Lewis +5 more
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