Characterization of a toxin-antitoxin system in Mycobacterium tuberculosis suggests neutralization by phosphorylation as the antitoxicity mechanism.
Yu, X., Gao, X., Zhu, K., Yin, H., Mao, X., Wojdyla, J.A., Qin, B., Huang, H., Wang, M., Sun, Y.C., Cui, S.(2020) Commun Biol 3: 216-216
- PubMed: 32382148 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0941-1
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6J7N, 6J7O, 6J7P, 6J7Q, 6J7R, 6J7S, 6J7T - PubMed Abstract: 
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) encodes an exceptionally large number of toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems, supporting the hypothesis that TA systems are involved in pathogenesis. We characterized the putative Mtb Rv1044-Rv1045 TA locus structurally and functionally, demonstrating that it constitutes a bona fide TA system but adopts a previously unobserved antitoxicity mechanism involving phosphorylation of the toxin ...