Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools
Type
Blog Post
Published
Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
...there are many protein-based toxin-antitoxin systems. One of the most well known protein-based toxin-antitoxin...specific sequences in RNA resulting in a blockage of protein synthesis. The antitoxin MazE, which binds and ...Toxin-antitoxin systems are not just restricted to the protein realm. Let’s take a look at a toxin-antitoxin system...additions to constructs that are used to drive high protein expression in vivo. Expression plasmids are often...PMC39188.
Kamada, Katsuhiko, Fumio Hanaoka, and Stephen K. Burley. "Crystal structure of the MazE/MazF complex...more stable than the methyltransferase. When a plasmid is lost, the methyltransferase is degraded and/or... replication by binding the GyrA subunit of DNA gyrase and trapping it in the cleaved complex. This results...