Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools
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Blog Post
Published
Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
... assortment toxins to claim territory or kill competing microorganisms, but did you know bacteria also...subunit of DNA gyrase and trapping it in the cleaved complex. This results in DNA breakage and cell death. Conversely...toxin-antitoxin roles. Restriction modification systems are composed of restriction endonucleases and methyltransferases...populations to retain more of these plasmids as compared to those without the restriction modification ...described, the hok/sok systems consist of three components:
Host killing (hok), a long-living toxin that...K. Burley. "Crystal structure of the MazE/MazF complex: molecular bases of antidote-toxin recognition....