Biology:Entericidin
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Short description: Bacterial antidote/toxin peptides
| Entericidin | |||||||||
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| Symbol | Entericidin | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF08085 | ||||||||
| Pfam clan | CL0421 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR012556 | ||||||||
| TCDB | 9.B.13 | ||||||||
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In molecular biology, entericidins are bacterial antidote/toxin peptides. The entericidin locus is activated in the stationary phase of growth under high osmolarity conditions by rho-S and simultaneously repressed by the osmoregulatory EnvZ/OmpR signal transduction pathway. The entericidin locus encodes tandem paralogous genes (ecnAB) and directs the synthesis of two small cell-envelope lipoproteins (entericidin A and entericidin B) which can maintain plasmids in bacterial population by means of post-segregational killing.[1]
References
- ↑ "The entericidin locus of Escherichia coli and its implications for programmed bacterial cell death". J. Mol. Biol. 280 (4): 583–96. July 1998. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1998.1894. PMID 9677290.
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