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The Two-Component Regulators GacS and GacA Positively Regulate a Nonfluorescent Siderophore through the Gac/Rsm Signaling Cascade in High-Siderophore-Yielding Pseudomonas sp. Strain HYS

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Internalization of Salmonella by Macrophages Induces Formation of Nonreplicating Persisters

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Toxin GhoT of the GhoT/GhoS toxin/antitoxin system damages the cell membrane to reduce adenosine triphosphate and to reduce growth under stress

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Identification and Characterization of Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in the Opportunistic Pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii

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A Toxin-Antitoxin Module of Salmonella Promotes Virulence in Mice

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Toxin-antitoxin loci vapBC-1 and vapXD contribute to survival and virulence in nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae

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TheEscherichia coliToxin MqsR Destabilizes the Transcriptional Repression Complex Formed between the Antitoxin MqsA and themqsRAOperon Promoter

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Toxin-Antitoxin Genes of the Gram-Positive Pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae: So Few and Yet So Many

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Toxin-Antitoxin Systems Are Important for Niche-Specific Colonization and Stress Resistance of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli

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Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Bacteria and Archaea

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Toxin-Antitoxin Systems Influence Biofilm and Persister Cell Formation and the General Stress Response

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Characterization of pyoverdine and achromobactin in Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola 1448a

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Antitoxin DinJ influences the general stress response through transcript stabilizer CspE

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Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are prevalent and transcribed in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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Antitoxin MqsA helps mediate the bacterial general stress response

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Regulation of growth and death in Escherichia coli by toxin–antitoxin systems

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The Yersinia pestis Chromosome Encodes Active Addiction Toxins

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa Increases Formation of Multidrug-Tolerant Persister Cells in Response to Quorum-Sensing Signaling Molecules

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Emergence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains Producing High Levels of Persister Cells in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis

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Ciprofloxacin Causes Persister Formation by Inducing the TisB toxin in Escherichia coli

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Toxins Hha and CspD and small RNA regulator Hfq are involved in persister cell formation through MqsR in Escherichia coli

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Bacterial Toxin HigB Associates with Ribosomes and Mediates Translation-dependent mRNA Cleavage at A-rich Sites

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Bacterial persistence: some new insights into an old phenomenon

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Three new RelE-homologous mRNA interferases ofEscherichia colidifferentially induced by environmental stresses

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

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Comprehensive Functional Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Toxin-Antitoxin Systems: Implications for Pathogenesis, Stress Responses, and Evolution

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Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Escherichia coli Influence Biofilm Formation through YjgK (TabA) and Fimbriae

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Swarming of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Is a Complex Adaptation Leading to Increased Production of Virulence Factors and Antibiotic Resistance

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Protein Translation and Cell Death: The Role of Rare tRNAs in Biofilm Formation and in Activating Dormant Phage Killer Genes

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Identification of Biofilm-Associated Cluster (bac) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Involved in Biofilm Formation and Virulence

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