Diversity of bacterial type II toxin-antitoxin systems: A comprehensive search and functional analysis of novel families

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5513-5525

  Leplae, Raphaël ^a   Geeraerts, Damien ^a   Hallez, Régis ^a,b   Guglielmini, Julien ^a,c   Drze, Pierre ^a   Van Melderen, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME SIZE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80052196405     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr131     Document Type: Article

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