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Microbiological Phenomena > Toxin-Antitoxin Systems

Preferred term

Toxin-Antitoxin Systems  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 2018

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000075704

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