A widespread bacteriophage abortive infection system functions through a Type IV toxin–antitoxin mechanism

Ribonucleases in bacterial toxin–antitoxin systems

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YgfX (CptA) is a multimeric membrane protein that interacts with the succinate dehydrogenase assembly factor SdhE (YgfY)

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Discovery of Functional Toxin/Antitoxin Systems in Bacteria by Shotgun Cloning

(2013) Hila Sberro et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Comparative genomics of defense systems in archaea and bacteria

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Bacterial Persistence and Toxin-Antitoxin Loci

(2012) Kenn Gerdes et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Comprehensive comparative-genomic analysis of Type 2 toxin-antitoxin systems and related mobile stress response systems in prokaryotes

(2012) Kira S Makarova et al.   Biology Direct

A novel membrane-bound toxin for cell division, CptA (YgfX), inhibits polymerization of cytoskeleton proteins, FtsZ and MreB, in Escherichia coli

(2012) Hisako Masuda et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Interspecies mobilization of an erm(T)-carrying plasmid of Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis by a coresident ICE of the ICESa2603 family

(2012) C. Palmieri et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Dmd of bacteriophage T4 functions as an antitoxin against Escherichia coli LsoA and RnlA toxins

(2012) Yuichi Otsuka et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

YeeU enhances the bundling of cytoskeletal polymers of MreB and FtsZ, antagonizing the CbtA (YeeV) toxicity in Escherichia coli

(2012) Hisako Masuda et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Structure and activity of AbiQ, a lactococcal endoribonuclease belonging to the type III toxin-antitoxin system

(2012) Julie E. Samson et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Adenylylation control by intra- or intermolecular active-site obstruction in Fic proteins

(2012) Philipp Engel et al.   NATURE

A new type V toxin-antitoxin system where mRNA for toxin GhoT is cleaved by antitoxin GhoS

(2012) Xiaoxue Wang et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Deregulation of poly(A) polymerase I in Escherichia coli inhibits protein synthesis and leads to cell death

(2012) B. K. Mohanty et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Identification and classification of bacterial Type III toxin–antitoxin systems encoded in chromosomal and plasmid genomes

(2012) Tim R. Blower et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

STRING v9.1: protein-protein interaction networks, with increased coverage and integration

(2012) Andrea Franceschini et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Selectivity and self-assembly in the control of a bacterial toxin by an antitoxic noncoding RNA pseudoknot

(2012) F. L. Short et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Function and Regulation of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) / CRISPR Associated (Cas) Systems

(2012) Corinna Richter et al.   Viruses-Basel

Viral Evasion of a Bacterial Suicide System by RNA–Based Molecular Mimicry Enables Infectious Altruism

(2012) Tim R. Blower et al.   PLoS Genetics

Toxins-antitoxins: diversity, evolution and function

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Defense Islands in Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes and Prediction of Novel Defense Systems

(2011) K. S. Makarova et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

A processed noncoding RNA regulates an altruistic bacterial antiviral system

(2011) Tim R Blower et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Diversity of bacterial type II toxin–antitoxin systems: a comprehensive search and functional analysis of novel families

(2011) Raphaël Leplae et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Csy4 is responsible for CRISPR RNA processing inPectobacterium atrosepticum

(2011) Rita Przybilski et al.   RNA Biology

Toxin–antitoxin systems: why so many, what for?

(2010) Laurence Van Melderen   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

YeeV is an Escherichia coli toxin that inhibits cell division by targeting the cytoskeleton proteins, FtsZ and MreB

(2010) Qian Tan et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Bacteriophage resistance mechanisms

(2010) Simon J. Labrie et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Abundance of type I toxin–antitoxin systems in bacteria: searches for new candidates and discovery of novel families

(2010) Elizabeth M. Fozo et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Activation of mRNA translation by phage protein and low temperature: the case of Lactococcus lactis abortive infection system AbiD1

(2009) Elena Bidnenko et al.   BMC MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Mutagenesis and Functional Characterization of the RNA and Protein Components of the toxIN Abortive Infection and Toxin-Antitoxin Locus of Erwinia

(2009) T. R. Blower et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Comprehensive classification of nucleotidyltransferase fold proteins: identification of novel families and their representatives in human

(2009) Krzysztof Kuchta et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The phage abortive infection system, ToxIN, functions as a protein–RNA toxin–antitoxin pair

(2009) Peter C. Fineran et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Toxin–Antitoxin System Promotes the Maintenance of an Integrative Conjugative Element

(2009) Rachel A. F. Wozniak et al.   PLoS Genetics

Automated Discovery and Phylogenetic Analysis of New Toxin-Antitoxin Systems

(2008) Julien Guglielmini et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Integrative Conjugative Elements and Related Elements Are Major Contributors to the Genome Diversity of Streptococcus agalactiae

(2008) M. Brochet et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Small Toxic Proteins and the Antisense RNAs That Repress Them

(2008) E. M. Fozo et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Messenger RNA interferase RelE controlsrelBEtranscription by conditional cooperativity

(2008) Martin Overgaard et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY