Identification of the first functional toxin-antitoxin system in Streptomyces.

Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are widespread among the plasmids and genomes of bacteria and archaea. This work reports the first description of a functional TA system in Streptomyces that is identical in two species routinely used in the laboratory: Streptomyces lividans and S. coelicolor. The descri...

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Main Authors: Laura Sevillano, Margarita Díaz, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Masayori Inouye, Ramón I Santamaría
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3303803?pdf=render