Browsing MIT Theses by Author "Aakre, Christopher David"
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Toxin-antitoxin systems in bacteria : targets, mechanisms, and specificity
Aakre, Christopher David (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are genetic modules widely present on bacterial chromosomes. These systems comprise a toxin and cognate antitoxin that are encoded together in an operon; normally, the toxin and antitoxin are ...