Proteic toxin-antitoxin, bacterial plasmid addiction systems and their evolution with special reference to thepassystem of pTF-FC2
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- 1 July 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 176 (2) , 269-277
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1999.tb13672.x
Abstract
Genes encoding toxin-antitoxin proteins are frequently found on plasmids where they serve to stabilize the plasmid within a bacterial population. TheKeywords
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