Toxins, antitoxins and immunity against toxins

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Classes of toxin/ antitoxin systems

  • Type 1: toxic peptide/ antisense RNA
  • Type 2: toxic protein/ antitoxin protein
  • Type 3: toxic RNA/ antisense RNA

Genes in this functional category

Type 1 TA systems:

Type 2 TA systems:

Type 3 TA systems:

Additional candidates

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Key reviews

Tim R Blower, George P C Salmond, Ben F Luisi
Balancing at survival's edge: the structure and adaptive benefits of prokaryotic toxin-antitoxin partners.
Curr Opin Struct Biol: 2011, 21(1);109-18
[PubMed:21315267] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Laurence Van Melderen
Toxin-antitoxin systems: why so many, what for?
Curr Opin Microbiol: 2010, 13(6);781-5
[PubMed:21041110] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Elizabeth M Fozo, Kira S Makarova, Svetlana A Shabalina, Natalya Yutin, Eugene V Koonin, Gisela Storz
Abundance of type I toxin-antitoxin systems in bacteria: searches for new candidates and discovery of novel families.
Nucleic Acids Res: 2010, 38(11);3743-59
[PubMed:20156992] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Kira S Makarova, Yuri I Wolf, Eugene V Koonin
Comprehensive comparative-genomic analysis of type 2 toxin-antitoxin systems and related mobile stress response systems in prokaryotes.
Biol Direct: 2009, 4;19
[PubMed:19493340] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Laurence Van Melderen, Manuel Saavedra De Bast
Bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems: more than selfish entities?
PLoS Genet: 2009, 5(3);e1000437
[PubMed:19325885] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Elizabeth M Fozo, Matthew R Hemm, Gisela Storz
Small toxic proteins and the antisense RNAs that repress them.
Microbiol Mol Biol Rev: 2008, 72(4);579-89, Table of Contents
[PubMed:19052321] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Kenn Gerdes, Susanne K Christensen, Anders Løbner-Olesen
Prokaryotic toxin-antitoxin stress response loci.
Nat Rev Microbiol: 2005, 3(5);371-82
[PubMed:15864262] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Finbarr Hayes
Toxins-antitoxins: plasmid maintenance, programmed cell death, and cell cycle arrest.
Science: 2003, 301(5639);1496-9
[PubMed:12970556] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)


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