TY - JOUR AU - Pimentel, Belén AU - Nair, Radhika AU - Bermejo-Rodríguez, Camino AU - Preston, Mark A AU - Agu, Chukwuma A AU - Wang, Xindan AU - Bernal, Juan A AU - Sherratt, David J AU - de la Cueva-Méndez, Guillermo PY - 2014 DO - 10.1073/pnas.1308241111 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/17650 AB - Worldwide dissemination of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is facilitated by plasmids that encode postsegregational killing (PSK) systems. These produce a stable toxin (T) and a labile antitoxin (A) conditioning cell survival to plasmid maintenance,... LA - eng PB - National Academy of Sciences KW - Base Sequence KW - Blotting, Western KW - Cell Division KW - DNA Replication KW - Drug Resistance, Bacterial KW - Escherichia coli KW - Escherichia coli Proteins KW - Microscopy, Electron KW - Molecular Sequence Data KW - Oligonucleotides KW - R Factors KW - Sequence Analysis, DNA TI - Toxin Kid uncouples DNA replication and cell division to enforce retention of plasmid R1 in Escherichia coli cells. TY - journal article ER -