Conditional cooperativity in toxin-antitoxin regulation prevents random toxin activation and promotes fast translational recovery

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 6424-6434

  Cataudella, Ilaria ^a   Trusina, Ala ^a   Sneppen, Kim ^a   Gerdes, Kenn ^b   Mitarai, Namiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONDITIONAL COOPERATIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RELBE GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; SIMULATION; STRESS;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOMEOSTASIS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84864950352     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks297     Document Type: Article

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