Structure, Evolution, and Functions of Bacterial Type III Toxin-Antitoxin Systems
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Structure, Evolution, and Functions of Bacterial Type III Toxin-Antitoxin Systems
Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are small genetic modules that encode a toxin (that targets an essential cellular process) and an antitoxin that neutralises or suppresses the deleterious effect of the toxin. Based on the molecular nature of the toxin and antitoxin components, TA systems are categorised into different types. Type III TA systems, the focus of this review, are composed of a toxic end...
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*Correspondence to: Laurence Van Melderen; Email: [email protected] Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are composed of two elements: a toxic protein and an antitoxin which is either an RNA (type I and III) or a protein (type II). Type II systems are abundant in bacterial genomes in which theymove via horizontal gene transfer. They are generally composed of two genes organized in an operon, encoding ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Toxins
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2072-6651
DOI: 10.3390/toxins8100282