Toxin-antitoxin systems: Why so many, what for?

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 781-785

  Van Melderen, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPLEX FORMATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CELL DEATH; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; PLASMIDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78649649439     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2010.10.006     Document Type: Review

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