Recent Advancements in Toxin and Antitoxin Systems Involved in Bacterial Programmed Cell Death

Programmed cell death (PCD) systems have been extensively studied for their significant role in a variety of biological processes in eukaryotic organisms. Recently, more and more researches have revealed the existence of similar systems employed by bacteria in response to various environmental stres...

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Autores principales: Hu, Ming-xi, Zhang, Xiao, Li, Er-li, Feng, Yong-Jun
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3021852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21253538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/781430
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author Hu, Ming-xi
Zhang, Xiao
Li, Er-li
Feng, Yong-Jun
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Zhang, Xiao
Li, Er-li
Feng, Yong-Jun
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description Programmed cell death (PCD) systems have been extensively studied for their significant role in a variety of biological processes in eukaryotic organisms. Recently, more and more researches have revealed the existence of similar systems employed by bacteria in response to various environmental stresses. This paper summarized the recent researching advancements in toxin/antitoxin systems located on plasmids or chromosomes and their regulatory roles in bacterial PCD. The most studied yet disputed mazEF system was discussed in depth, and possible roles and status of such a special bacterial death and TA systems were also reviewed from the ecological and evolutionary perspectives.
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spelling pubmed-30218522011-01-20 Recent Advancements in Toxin and Antitoxin Systems Involved in Bacterial Programmed Cell Death Hu, Ming-xi Zhang, Xiao Li, Er-li Feng, Yong-Jun Int J Microbiol Review Article Programmed cell death (PCD) systems have been extensively studied for their significant role in a variety of biological processes in eukaryotic organisms. Recently, more and more researches have revealed the existence of similar systems employed by bacteria in response to various environmental stresses. This paper summarized the recent researching advancements in toxin/antitoxin systems located on plasmids or chromosomes and their regulatory roles in bacterial PCD. The most studied yet disputed mazEF system was discussed in depth, and possible roles and status of such a special bacterial death and TA systems were also reviewed from the ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3021852/ /pubmed/21253538 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/781430 Text en Copyright © 2010 Ming-xi Hu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hu, Ming-xi
Zhang, Xiao
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Recent Advancements in Toxin and Antitoxin Systems Involved in Bacterial Programmed Cell Death
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title_full Recent Advancements in Toxin and Antitoxin Systems Involved in Bacterial Programmed Cell Death
title_fullStr Recent Advancements in Toxin and Antitoxin Systems Involved in Bacterial Programmed Cell Death
title_full_unstemmed Recent Advancements in Toxin and Antitoxin Systems Involved in Bacterial Programmed Cell Death
title_short Recent Advancements in Toxin and Antitoxin Systems Involved in Bacterial Programmed Cell Death
title_sort recent advancements in toxin and antitoxin systems involved in bacterial programmed cell death
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3021852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21253538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/781430
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