Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools
Type
Blog Post
Published
Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
...antitoxin) where CcdB inferes with DNA replication by binding the GyrA subunit of DNA gyrase and trapping it ...in DNA breakage and cell death. Conversely, CcdA binds to and blocks the activity of CcdB.
Applications...of protein synthesis. The antitoxin MazE, which binds and inhibits MazF, is continually cleaved by the...control of the AOX1 promoter whose expression is induced by methanol. Once linearized, the delivery vector... where recombination has not occured, methanol induces the production of the toxic MazF leading to cell...triggering cell death. However, the sok antisense-RNA binds a sequence downstream of the mok SD resulting in... as an orally administered diagnostic that can indicate the presence of liver metastasis by producing ...