TAC-TIC, a high-throughput genetics method to identify triggers or blockers of bacterial toxin-antitoxin systems.


Journal

Nature protocols
ISSN: 1750-2799
Titre abrégé: Nat Protoc
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101284307

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
09 May 2024
Historique:
received: 06 09 2022
accepted: 14 02 2024
medline: 10 5 2024
pubmed: 10 5 2024
entrez: 9 5 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Toxin-antitoxin systems (TAs) are abundant in bacterial chromosomes and can arrest growth under stress, but usually remain inactive. TAs have been increasingly implicated in halting the growth of infected bacteria from bacteriophages or foreign genetic elements

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pubmed: 38724726
doi: 10.1038/s41596-024-00988-y
pii: 10.1038/s41596-024-00988-y
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Journal Article Review

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eng

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© 2024. European Molecular Biology Laboratory, under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Jacob Bobonis (J)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Genome Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany.
Division of Microbial Ecology, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Alessio Ling Jie Yang (ALJ)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Genome Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany.
Collaboration for joint PhD degree between EMBL and Heidelberg University, Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg, Germany.

Carlos Geert Pieter Voogdt (CGP)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Genome Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany.

Athanasios Typas (A)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Genome Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany. typas@embl.de.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany. typas@embl.de.

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