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One cannot rule them all: Are bacterial toxins-antitoxins druggable?

Type II (proteic) toxin–antitoxin (TA) operons are widely spread in bacteria and archaea. They are organized as operons in which, usually, the antitoxin gene precedes the cognate toxin gene. The antitoxin generally acts as a transcriptional self-repressor, whereas the toxin acts as a co-repressor, b...

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Autores principales: Chan, Wai Ting, Balsa, Dolors, Espinosa, Manuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4487406/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25796610
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuv002