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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mycobacterium smegmatis
SUBMITTER: Jennifer Robson
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-29631 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Journal of bacteriology 20120224 9
The largest family of toxin-antitoxin (TA) modules are encoded by the vapBC operons, but their roles in bacterial physiology remain enigmatic. Microarray analysis in Mycobacterium smegmatis overexpressing VapC/VapBC revealed a high percentage of downregulated genes with annotated roles in carbon transport and metabolism, suggesting that VapC was targeting specific metabolic mRNA transcripts. To validate this hypothesis, purified VapC was used to identify the RNA cleavage site in vitro. VapC had ...[more]