Identification and classification of bacterial Type III toxin-antitoxin systems encoded in chromosomal and plasmid genomes.

Abstract:

:Toxin-antitoxin systems are widespread in bacteria and archaea. They perform diverse functional roles, including the generation of persistence, maintenance of genetic loci and resistance to bacteriophages through abortive infection. Toxin-antitoxin systems have been divided into three types, depending on the nature of the interacting macromolecules. The recently discovered Type III toxin-antitoxin systems encode protein toxins that are inhibited by pseudoknots of antitoxic RNA, encoded by short tandem repeats upstream of the toxin gene. Recent studies have identified the range of Type I and Type II systems within current sequence databases. Here, structure-based homology searches were combined with iterative protein sequence comparisons to obtain a current picture of the prevalence of Type III systems. Three independent Type III families were identified, according to toxin sequence similarity. The three families were found to be far more abundant and widespread than previously known, with examples throughout the Firmicutes, Fusobacteria and Proteobacteria. Functional assays confirmed that representatives from all three families act as toxin-antitoxin loci within Escherichia coli and at least two of the families confer resistance to bacteriophages. This study shows that active Type III toxin-antitoxin systems are far more diverse than previously known, and suggests that more remain to be identified.

journal_name

Nucleic Acids Res

journal_title

Nucleic acids research

authors

Blower TR,Short FL,Rao F,Mizuguchi K,Pei XY,Fineran PC,Luisi BF,Salmond GP

doi

10.1093/nar/gks231

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-07-01 00:00:00

pages

6158-73

issue

13

eissn

0305-1048

issn

1362-4962

pii

gks231

journal_volume

40

pub_type

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