Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools
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...produce substances toxic to themselves?
What are toxin-antitoxin systems?
These toxic substances are part...applications.
The discovery of toxin-antitoxin systems
Toxin-antitoxin systems were first discovered in...division”). The encoded toxin-antitoxin system consists of CcdB (toxin) and CcdA (antitoxin) where CcdB inferes...protein-based toxin-antitoxin systems. One of the most well known protein-based toxin-antitoxin system is ...part of toxin-antitoxin systems that are widely present in bacteria. They consist of a toxin which can...and an antitoxin that suppresses the toxin’s activity. The key to these systems is that the toxin is stable..., it will still inherit some toxin and antitoxin. However, the antitoxin will be degraded leaving the ...