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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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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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Applications of toxin-antitoxin systems in synthetic biology
Engineering Microbiology, 2023 Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are ubiquitous in bacteria and archaea. Most are composed of two neighboring genetic elements, a stable toxin capable of inhibiting crucial cellular processes, including replication, transcription, translation, cell division ...
Jianzhong Lin +4 more
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Regulation of toxin-antitoxin systems by proteolysis. [PDF]
Plasmid, 2013 Toxin-antitoxin systems are widely distributed among many bacterial species, including human pathogens. Regulation of type II TA system functions, where both components are proteins, relies on proteolysis.
Brzozowska, Iwona +1 more
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Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Escherichia coli [PDF]
Infection and Drug ResistanceHe Zhang,1 Shuan Tao,2 Huimin Chen,2 Yewei Fang,2 Yao Xu,3 A-Xiang Han,2 Fang Ma,1,* Wei Liang2,* 1Department of Medical Laboratory, Bengbu Medical University, Bengbu, Anhui, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Clinical Laboratory, The ...
Fang Y +7 more
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Evolution of the SpoIISABC Toxin-Antitoxin-Antitoxin System in Bacilli [PDF]
Toxins, 2016 Programmed cell death in bacteria is generally associated with two-component toxin-antitoxin systems. The SpoIISABC system, originally identified in Bacillus subtilis, consists of three components: a SpoIISA toxin and the SpoIISB and SpoIISC antitoxins ...
Marek Gabriško, Imrich Barák
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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 [...]
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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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Modeling sRNA-Regulated Plasmid Maintenance. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 We study a theoretical model for the toxin-antitoxin (hok/sok) mechanism for plasmid maintenance in bacteria. Toxin-antitoxin systems enforce the maintenance of a plasmid through post-segregational killing of cells that have lost the plasmid.
Chen Chris Gong, Stefan Klumpp
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Chaperone addiction of toxin–antitoxin systems [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 AbstractBacterial toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems, in which a labile antitoxin binds and inhibits the toxin, can promote adaptation and persistence by modulating bacterial growth in response to stress. Some atypical TA systems, known as tripartite toxin–antitoxin–chaperone (TAC) modules, include a molecular chaperone that facilitates folding and protects ...
Patricia Bordes +8 more
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