"Toxin-Antitoxin Systems" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Mechanisms that allow bacteria and archaea to rapidly adapt to changing environmental conditions via a toxin, produced during adverse conditions, that inhibits a specific vital process, and a partner antitoxin that blocks the effects of the toxin, under normal growth conditions.
| Descriptor ID |
D000075704
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G06.773
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| Concept/Terms |
Toxin-Antitoxin Systems- Toxin-Antitoxin Systems
- System, Toxin-Antitoxin
- Systems, Toxin-Antitoxin
- Toxin Antitoxin Systems
- Toxin-Antitoxin System
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Toxin-Antitoxin Systems" by people in Profiles.
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A YoeB toxin cleaves both RNA and DNA. Sci Rep. 2021 02 11; 11(1):3592.
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Bacterial Growth Mindset: Structural Plasticity in Defense Systems. Structure. 2021 02 04; 29(2):97-98.
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Evaluating the Potential for Cross-Interactions of Antitoxins in Type II TA Systems. Toxins (Basel). 2020 06 26; 12(6).
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The toxin from a ParDE toxin-antitoxin system found in Pseudomonas aeruginosa offers protection to cells challenged with anti-gyrase antibiotics. Mol Microbiol. 2019 02; 111(2):441-454.