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A problem of persistence: still more questions than answers?

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Bacterial Persistence and Toxin-Antitoxin Loci

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Bacterial persistence by RNA endonucleases

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Conditional cooperativity in toxin-antitoxin regulation prevents random toxin activation and promotes fast translational recovery

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Conditional cooperativity of toxin - antitoxin regulation can mediate bistability between growth and dormancy

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Crystal Structure of the VapBC Toxin–Antitoxin Complex from Shigella flexneri Reveals a Hetero-Octameric DNA-Binding Assembly

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Crystallization of the HigBA2 toxin-antitoxin complex from Vibrio cholerae.

scientific article published on 27 August 2013

Direct interaction of FtsZ and MreB is required for septum synthesis and cell division in Escherichia coli

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Ectopic production of VapCs from Enterobacteria inhibits translation and trans-activates YoeB mRNA interferase.

scientific article published on 14 April 2009

Enteric virulence associated protein VapC inhibits translation by cleavage of initiator tRNA

scientific article published on April 18, 2011

Fatty acid starvation activates RelA by depleting lysine precursor pyruvate

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

FtsZ-ZapA-ZapB Interactome of Escherichia coli

scientific article published on November 4, 2011

HicA of Escherichia coli defines a novel family of translation-independent mRNA interferases in bacteria and archaea

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HicA toxin of Escherichia coli derepresses hicAB transcription to selectively produce HicB antitoxin.

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Hypothesis: type I toxin-antitoxin genes enter the persistence field-a feedback mechanism explaining membrane homoeostasis

scientific article published on November 2016

Molecular mechanism of bacterial persistence by HipA.

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Molecular mechanisms underlying bacterial persisters.

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Movement and equipositioning of plasmids by ParA filament disassembly

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Novel (p)ppGpp Binding and Metabolizing Proteins of Escherichia coli

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

ParA ATPases can move and position DNA and subcellular structures

scientific article published on 29 September 2011

PasT of Escherichia coli sustains antibiotic tolerance and aerobic respiration as a bacterial homolog of mitochondrial Coq10

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Peptide-nucleotide antibiotic Microcin C is a potent inducer of stringent response and persistence in both sensitive and producing cells.

scientific article published on 6 February 2017

Protein expression, crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of the isolated Shigella flexneri VapC toxin

scientific article published on 28 June 2013

Pushing and pulling in prokaryotic DNA segregation

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RETRACTED: (p)ppGpp Controls Bacterial Persistence by Stochastic Induction of Toxin-Antitoxin Activity

retracted article by Etienne Maisonneuve et al published August 2013 in Cell

Regulation of Enteric vapBC Transcription: Induction by VapC Toxin Dimer-Breaking

scientific article published on January 27, 2012

RelB and RelE of Escherichia coli form a tight complex that represses transcription via the ribbon-helix-helix motif in RelB.

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RodZ, a new player in bacterial cell morphogenesis

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Serine-Threonine Kinases Encoded by Split hipA Homologs Inhibit Tryptophanyl-tRNA Synthetase

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Spatial resolution of two bacterial cell division proteins: ZapA recruits ZapB to the inner face of the Z-ring

scientific article published on 11 May 2010

The Structural Basis for mRNA Recognition and Cleavage by the Ribosome-Dependent Endonuclease RelE

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The kinases HipA and HipA7 phosphorylate different substrate pools in Escherichia coli to promote multidrug tolerance

scientific article published on 11 September 2018

Three new RelE-homologous mRNA interferases of Escherichia coli differentially induced by environmental stresses

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VapC20 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cleaves the sarcin-ricin loop of 23S rRNA

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What is the mechanism of ParA-mediated DNA movement?

scientific article published on October 2010

ZapE is a novel cell division protein interacting with FtsZ and modulating the Z-ring dynamics

scientific article published on 04 March 2014