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Stochastic induction of persister cells by HipA through (p)ppGpp-mediated activation of mRNA endonucleases.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 21 Apr 2015
Germain Elsa, Roghanian Mohammad, Gerdes Kenn, Maisonneuve Etienne
Abstract excerpt
The model organism Escherichia coli codes for at least 11 type II toxin-antitoxin (TA) modules, all implicated in bacterial persistence (multidrug tolerance). Ten of these encode messenger RNA endonucleases (mRNases) inhibiting translation by catalytic degradation of mRNA, and the 11th module, hipBA, encodes HipA (high persister protein A) kinase, which inhibits glutamyl tRNA synthetase (GltX). In turn,...
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