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Characterization of a higBA toxin-antitoxin locus in Vibrio cholerae.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jan 2007
Budde Priya Prakash, Davis Brigid M, Yuan Jie, Waldor Matthew K
Abstract excerpt
Toxin-antitoxin (TA) loci, which were initially characterized as plasmid stabilization agents, have in recent years been detected on the chromosomes of numerous free-living bacteria. Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, contains 13 putative TA loci, all of which are clustered within the superintegron on chromosome II. Here we report the characterization of the V. cholerae higBA locus, also known as...
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