Reassessing the Role of the Type II MqsRA Toxin-Antitoxin System in Stress Response and Biofilm Formation: <italic toggle="yes">mqsA</italic> Is Transcriptionally Uncoupled from <italic toggle="yes">mqsR</italic>

ABSTRACT Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are broadly distributed modules whose biological roles remain mostly unknown. The mqsRA system is a noncanonical TA system in which the toxin and antitoxins genes are organized in operon but with the particularity that the toxin gene precedes that of the antitox...

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Main Authors: Nathan Fraikin, Clothilde J. Rousseau, Nathalie Goeders, Laurence Van Melderen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-12-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.02678-19