Hypothetical Functions of Toxin-Antitoxin Systems
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Hypothetical functions of toxin-antitoxin systems.
Toxin-antitoxin systems are very commonly found both on large, low-copy plasmids, where they increase effective stability (35), and on bacterial chromosomes, where their function has been the subject of considerable speculation. In this issue of the Journal of Bacteriology, Virginie Tsilibaris and colleagues (65) in the laboratory of Laurence Van Melderen ask “What is the benefit to Escherichia...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.00958-07