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A Toxin–Antitoxin System Promotes the Maintenance of an Integrative Conjugative Element
SXT is an integrative and conjugative element (ICE) that confers resistance to multiple antibiotics upon many clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae. In most cells, this ∼100 Kb element is integrated into the host genome in a site-specific fashion; however, SXT can excise to form an extrachromosomal c...
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Public Library of Science
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2654960/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19325886 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000439 |