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Keeping the wolves at bay: antitoxins of prokaryotic type II toxin-antitoxin systems

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 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 ...
Wai Ting eChan, Manuel eEspinosa, Chew Chieng eYeo   +2 more
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Evolution of the SpoIISABC Toxin-Antitoxin-Antitoxin System in Bacilli

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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A common origin for the bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems parD and ccd, suggested by analyses of toxin/target and toxin/antitoxin interactions.

PLoS ONE, 2012
Bacterial toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems encode two proteins, a potent inhibitor of cell proliferation (toxin) and its specific antidote (antitoxin). Structural data has revealed striking similarities between the two model TA toxins CcdB, a DNA gyrase ...
Andrew B Smith, Juan López-Villarejo, Elizabeth Diago-Navarro, Lesley A Mitchenall, Arjan Barendregt, Albert J Heck, Marc Lemonnier, Anthony Maxwell, Ramón Díaz-Orejas   +8 more
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Association between toxin-antitoxin system mutations and global transmission of MDR-TB

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background The emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) poses a significant threat to global tuberculosis control efforts. This study aimed to examine the influence of mutations in Toxin-Antitoxin system genes on the global transmission of ...
Yameng Li, Yang Shao, Yifan Li, Xianglong Kong, Ningning Tao, Yawei Hou, Tingting Wang, Yingying Li, Yao Liu, Huaichen Li   +9 more
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Development of an antibiotic marker-free platform for heterologous protein production in Streptomyces

Microbial Cell Factories, 2017
Background The industrial use of enzymes produced by microorganisms is continuously growing due to the need for sustainable solutions. Nevertheless, many of the plasmids used for recombinant production of proteins in bacteria are based on the use of ...
Laura Sevillano, Margarita Díaz, Ramón I. Santamaría   +2 more
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The Toxin of VapBC-1 Toxin-Antitoxin Module from Leptospira interrogans Is a Ribonuclease That Does Not Arrest Bacterial Growth but Affects Cell Viability

Microorganisms
Bacterial ubiquitous Toxin-Antitoxin (TA) systems are considered to be important survival mechanisms during stress conditions. In regular environmental conditions, the antitoxin blocks the toxin, whereas during imbalanced conditions, the antitoxin ...
Deborah K. Damiano, Bruna O. P. Azevedo, George S. C. Fernandes, Aline F. Teixeira, Viviane M. Gonçalves, Ana L. T. O. Nascimento, Alexandre P. Y. Lopes   +6 more
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The ng_ζ1 toxin of the gonococcal epsilon/zeta toxin/antitoxin system drains precursors for cell wall synthesis

Nature Communications, 2018
Toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems are important modulators of bacterial physiology. Here, the authors structurally characterize the epsilon/zeta TA system from the Gram-negative pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae and show that the toxin interferes with ...
Andrea Rocker, Madeleine Peschke, Tiia Kittilä, Roman Sakson, Clara Brieke, Anton Meinhart   +5 more
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Characterization of the Deep-Sea Streptomyces sp. SCSIO 02999 Derived VapC/VapB Toxin-Antitoxin System in Escherichia coli

Toxins, 2016
Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are small genetic elements that are ubiquitous in prokaryotes. Most studies on TA systems have focused on commensal and pathogenic bacteria; yet very few studies have focused on TAs in marine bacteria, especially those ...
Yunxue Guo, Jianyun Yao, Chenglong Sun, Zhongling Wen, Xiaoxue Wang   +4 more
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Novel type II toxin-antitoxin systems with VapD-like proteins

mBio
Type II toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are widespread in prokaryotes. They consist of neighboring genes encoding two small proteins: a toxin that inhibits a critical cellular process and an antitoxin that binds to and neutralizes the toxin.
Konstantin Gilep, Dmitry Bikmetov, Aleksandr Popov, Anastasiia Rusanova, Shunsuke Tagami, Svetlana Dubiley, Konstantin Severinov   +6 more
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Single-cell analysis reveals that cryptic prophage protease LfgB protects Escherichia coli during oxidative stress by cleaving antitoxin MqsA

Microbiology Spectrum
Although toxin/antitoxin (TA) systems are ubiquitous, beyond phage inhibition and mobile element stabilization, their role in host metabolism is obscure.
Laura Fernández-García, Xinyu Gao, Joy Kirigo, Sooyeon Song, Michael E. Battisti, Rodolfo Garcia-Contreras, Maria Tomas, Yunxue Guo, Xiaoxue Wang, Thomas K. Wood   +9 more
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