Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools
Type
Blog Post
Published
Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
... MazF is a ribonuclease that cleaves specific sequences in RNA resulting in a blockage of protein synthesis...endonucleases cleave DNA at or near specific nucleotide sequences. To counter this, methyltransferases add methyl...methyl groups to bases at specific nucleotide sequences, preventing the cognate restriction enzyme from cleaving...coupled. Translation from the Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence of mok results in translation of Mok and Hok, ... death. However, the sok antisense-RNA binds a sequence downstream of the mok SD resulting in a double...