Toxin-Antitoxin Systems as Multilevel Interaction Systems

Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are small genetic modules usually composed of a toxin and an antitoxin counteracting the activity of the toxic protein. These systems are widely spread in bacterial and archaeal genomes. TA systems have been assigned many functions, ranging from persistence to DNA stabil...

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Main Authors: Nathalie Goeders, Laurence Van Melderen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-01-01
Series:Toxins
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/6/1/304