Transcriptional Control of Toxin-Antitoxin Expression: Keeping Toxins Under Wraps Until the Time is Right

Stress and Environmental Regulation of Gene Expression and Adaptation in Bacteria

Volumn 1, Issue , 2016, Pages 463-472

  Kedzierska, Barbara ^a   Hayes, Finbarr ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibacterial target; DNA binding; Gene expression; Toxin antitoxin; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018220243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119004813.ch42     Document Type: Chapter

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