Entericidin
| 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
- ↑ Bishop RE, Leskiw BK, Hodges RS, Kay CM, Weiner JH (July 1998). "The entericidin locus of Escherichia coli and its implications for programmed bacterial cell death". J. Mol. Biol. 280 (4): 583–96. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1998.1894. PMID 9677290.
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