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

The Escherichia coli Extracellular Death Factor EDF Induces the Endoribonucleolytic Activities of the Toxins MazF and ChpBK

(2011) Maria Belitsky et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

The Escherichia coli replication inhibitor CspD is subject to growth-regulated degradation by the Lon protease

(2011) Sina Langklotz et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Antitoxin MqsA helps mediate the bacterial general stress response

(2011) Xiaoxue Wang et al.   Nature Chemical 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

Escherichia coli toxin/antitoxin pair MqsR/MqsA regulate toxin CspD

(2010) Younghoon Kim et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Escherichia coli rnlA and rnlB Compose a Novel Toxin-Antitoxin System

(2010) M. Koga et al.   GENETICS

The Escherichia coli mqsR and ygiT Genes Encode a New Toxin-Antitoxin Pair

(2010) V. Kasari et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Structure of theEscherichia coliAntitoxin MqsA (YgiT/b3021) Bound to Its Gene Promoter Reveals Extensive Domain Rearrangements and the Specificity of Transcriptional Regulation

(2010) Breann L. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

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

Regulation of phenotypic variability by a threshold-based mechanism underlies bacterial persistence

(2010) Eitan Rotem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Engineering biofilm formation and dispersal

(2010) Thomas K. Wood et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Cryptic prophages help bacteria cope with adverse environments

(2010) Xiaoxue Wang et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2010) Tobias Dörr et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Chromosomal Toxin Gene yafQ Is a Determinant of Multidrug Tolerance for Escherichia coli Growing in a Biofilm

(2009) J. J. Harrison et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

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

(2009) Younghoon Kim et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Control and benefits of CP4-57 prophage excision in Escherichia coli biofilms

(2009) Xiaoxue Wang et al.   ISME Journal

MqsR, a Crucial Regulator for Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation, Is a GCU-specific mRNA Interferase inEscherichia coli

(2009) Yoshihiro Yamaguchi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Bacterial persistence: some new insights into an old phenomenon

(2009) R. Jayaraman   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES

Role of persisters and small-colony variants in antibiotic resistance of planktonic and biofilm-associated Staphylococcus aureus: an in vitro study

(2009) R. Singh et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Signals, Regulatory Networks, and Materials That Build and Break Bacterial Biofilms

(2009) E. Karatan et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Bacterial toxin YafQ is an endoribonuclease that associates with the ribosome and blocks translation elongation through sequence-specific and frame-dependent mRNA cleavage

(2009) Meredith H. Prysak et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2009) Mikkel Christensen-Dalsgaard et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A Differential Effect of E. coli Toxin-Antitoxin Systems on Cell Death in Liquid Media and Biofilm Formation

(2009) Ilana Kolodkin-Gal et al.   PLoS One

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

Cross-talk mechanisms in biofilm formation and responses to environmental and physiological stress in Escherichia coli

(2009) Paolo Landini   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial biofilms: a concept for industrial catalysis?

(2009) Bettina Rosche et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Nitric oxide-mediated dispersal in single- and multi-species biofilms of clinically and industrially relevant microorganisms

(2009) Nicolas Barraud et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Bacterial Toxin–Antitoxin Systems: More Than Selfish Entities?

(2009) Laurence Van Melderen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Escherichia coli MazF Leads to the Simultaneous Selective Synthesis of Both “Death Proteins” and “Survival Proteins”

(2009) Shahar Amitai et al.   PLoS Genetics

Three Dimensional Structure of the MqsR:MqsA Complex: A Novel TA Pair Comprised of a Toxin Homologous to RelE and an Antitoxin with Unique Properties

(2009) Breann L. Brown et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Type 1 Fimbriae, a Colonization Factor of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli, Are Controlled by the Metabolic Sensor CRP-cAMP

(2009) Claudia M. Müller et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The effects of a serine protease, Alcalase®, on the adhesives of barnacle cyprids (Balanus amphitrite)

(2008) Nick Aldred et al.   BIOFOULING

Roles of type IV pili, flagellum-mediated motility and extracellular DNA in the formation of mature multicellular structures inPseudomonas aeruginosabiofilms

(2008) Kim B. Barken et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Inverse regulatory coordination of motility and curli-mediated adhesion in Escherichia coli

(2008) C. Pesavento et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

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

(2008) Y. Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Molecular Control of Bacterial Death and Lysis

(2008) K. C. Rice et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

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

(2008) Rodolfo García-Contreras et al.   PLoS One