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PMID:19325886
| Citation |
Wozniak, RA and Waldor, MK (2009) A toxin-antitoxin system promotes the maintenance of an integrative conjugative element. PLoS Genet. 5:e1000439 |
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| Abstract |
SXT is an integrative and conjugative element (ICE) that confers resistance to multiple antibiotics upon many clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae. In most cells, this approximately 100 Kb element is integrated into the host genome in a site-specific fashion; however, SXT can excise to form an extrachromosomal circle that is thought to be the substrate for conjugative transfer. Daughter cells lacking SXT can theoretically arise if cell division occurs prior to the element's reintegration. Even though approximately 2% of SXT-bearing cells contain the excised form of the ICE, cells that have lost the element have not been detected. Here, using a positive selection-based system, SXT loss was detected rarely at a frequency of approximately 1 x 10(-7). As expected, excision appears necessary for loss, and factors influencing the frequency of excision altered the frequency of SXT loss. We screened the entire 100 kb SXT genome and identified two genes within SXT, now designated mosA and mosT (for maintenance of SXT Antitoxin and Toxin), that promote SXT stability. These two genes, which lack similarity to any previously characterized genes, encode a novel toxin-antitoxin pair; expression of mosT greatly impaired cell growth and mosA expression ameliorated MosT toxicity. Factors that promote SXT excision upregulate mosAT expression. Thus, when the element is extrachromosomal and vulnerable to loss, SXT activates a TA module to minimize the formation of SXT-free cells. |
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PubMed PMC2654960 Online version:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000439 |
| Keywords |
Antitoxins/genetics; Bacterial Toxins/genetics; Drug Resistance, Microbial/genetics; Escherichia coli; Genes, Bacterial; Genome, Bacterial; Vibrio cholerae |
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| Gene product | Qualifier | GO Term | Evidence Code | with/from | Aspect | Extension | Notes | Status |
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| GO:0009636: response to toxin |
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Figure 1. shows that when SXT is present the cell is spectinomycin-sensitive and chloramphenicol-resistance. If SXT is absent the cell is spectinomycin-resistant and chloramphenicol-sensitive. |
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