Prokaryotic Toxin-Antitoxins

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gerdes, Kenn (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Medical microbiology.; Microbiology.; Apoptosis.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Life Sciences.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Medical Microbiology.; Applied Microbiology.

Prokaryotic Toxins – Antitoxins presents the first comprehensive overview of an exciting and rapidly expanding research field. Toxin – antitoxin (TA) genes were first identified on plasmids almost 30 years ago. Since then it has become evident that TA genes are highly abundant on both plasmids and c...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Type I Toxin – Antitoxin Systems: Hok/Sok and Fst
• Novel Type I Toxin – Antitoxin Systems
• Type II TA Loci: The Ccdab and Parde Families
• Type II TA Loci: The Relbe Family
• Type II TA Loci: The Unusual Mqsra Locus
• Type II TA Loci: The Mazef Family
• Type II TA Loci: Vapbc and Other TA Loci In Mycobacteria
• Type II TA Loci: Phd Doc Family
• Type II TA Loci: The Fic Family
• Type II TA Loci, Hipab And Persisters
• Type II TA Loci: Zeta/Pezt Family
• Type II Loci: Phylogeny
• Type III TA Loci
• TA Loci Encoded By Plasmids
• TA Loci in Archaea
• TA Loci in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
• TA Loci in Streptococcus Pneumoniae
• Biotechnological and Medical Exploitations Of TA Genes and Their Components.