Toxin–Antitoxin Systems in <i>Bacillus subtilis</i>
Toxin−antitoxin (TA) systems were originally discovered as plasmid maintenance systems in a multitude of free-living bacteria, but were afterwards found to also be widespread in bacterial chromosomes. TA loci comprise two genes, one coding for a stable toxin whose overexpression kills the...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2019-05-01
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Series: | Toxins |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/11/5/262 |