Abundance of type I toxin-antitoxin systems in bacteria: Searches for new candidates and discovery of novel families

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3743-3759

  Fozo, Elizabeth M ^a   Makarova, Kira S ^b   Shabalina, Svetlana A ^b   Yutin, Natalya ^b   Koonin, Eugene V ^b   Storz, Gisela ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN FST; PROTEIN LDR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77951619556     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq054     Document Type: Article

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