Phylogeny Reveals Novel HipA-Homologous Kinase Families and Toxin-Antitoxin Gene Organizations

Kenn Gerdes; Rene Bærentsen; Ditlev E. Brodersen

doi:10.1128/mBio.01058-21

mBio (Jun 2021)

Phylogeny Reveals Novel HipA-Homologous Kinase Families and Toxin-Antitoxin Gene Organizations

Kenn Gerdes,
Rene Bærentsen,
Ditlev E. Brodersen

Affiliations

Kenn Gerdes: Centre of Excellence for Bacterial Stress Response and Persistence, Section for Functional Genomics, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen N, Denmark
Rene Bærentsen: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
Ditlev E. Brodersen: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01058-21
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 3

Abstract

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Bacterial multidrug tolerance and persistence are problems of increasing scientific and medical significance. The first gene discovered to confer persistence was hipAhipBAE. coli

Published in mBio

ISSN: 2161-2129 (Print); 2150-7511 (Online)
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Microbiology
Website: https://journals.asm.org/journal/mbio

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