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Automated discovery and phylogenetic analysis of new toxin-antitoxin systems

BACKGROUND: Although often viewed as elements "at the service of" bacteria, plasmids exhibit replication and maintenance mechanisms that make them purely "selfish DNA" candidates. Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are a spectacular example of such mechanisms: a gene coding for a cytot...

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Autores principales: Guglielmini, Julien, Szpirer, Cédric, Milinkovitch, Michel C
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2446400/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18578869
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-8-104