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    A toxin-antitoxin system consists of a "toxin" and a corresponding "antitoxin", usually encoded by closely linked genes. The toxin is usually a protein...
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    The TisB-IstR toxin-antitoxin system is the first known toxin-antitoxin system which is induced by the SOS response in response to DNA damage. IstR sRNA...
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    altered to enable the bacteria to survive. The SOS dependent tisB-istR toxin-antitoxin system has, for example, been linked to DNA damage-dependent persister...
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    hok/sok system is a postsegregational killing mechanism employed by the R1 plasmid in Escherichia coli. It was the first type I toxin-antitoxin pair to...
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    Sib RNA (category RNA antitoxins)
    membrane insertion brings about cell death. Addiction module TisB-IstR toxin-antitoxin system Rudd KE (1999). "Novel intergenic repeats of Escherichia coli...
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