"Toxin-Antitoxin Systems" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Mechanisms that allow bacteria and archaea to rapidly adapt to changing environmental conditions via a toxin, produced during adverse conditions, that inhibits a specific vital process, and a partner antitoxin that blocks the effects of the toxin, under normal growth conditions.
| Descriptor ID |
D000075704
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G06.773
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| Concept/Terms |
Toxin-Antitoxin Systems- Toxin-Antitoxin Systems
- System, Toxin-Antitoxin
- Systems, Toxin-Antitoxin
- Toxin Antitoxin Systems
- Toxin-Antitoxin System
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A toxin-antitoxin system is essential for the stability of mosquitocidal plasmid pBsph of Lysinibacillus sphaericus. Microbiol Res. 2018 Sep; 214:114-122.