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A Primary Physiological Role of Toxin/Antitoxin Systems Is Phage Inhibition

Toxin/antitoxin (TA) systems are present in most prokaryote genomes. Toxins are almost exclusively proteins that reduce metabolism (but do not cause cell death), and antitoxins are either RNA or proteins that counteract the toxin or the RNA that encodes it. Although TA systems clearly stabilize mobi...

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Published in:Front Microbiol
Main Authors: Song, Sooyeon, Wood, Thomas K.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7438911/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32903830
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01895
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