Prokaryotic Toxin-Antitoxins

1. Introduction
Kenn Gerdes

2. Type I Toxin-Antitoxin Loci: hok/sok and fst

Keith Weaver

3. Novel Type I Toxin-Antitoxins Loci
Elizabeth Fozo

4. Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Loci: The ccdAB and parDE Families
Marie Deghorain, Nathalie Goeders, Thomas Jové, Laurence Melderen

5. Type II Toxin-Antitoxins Loci: The relBE Family
Kenn Gerdes

6. Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Loci: The Unusual mqsRA Locus
Niilo Kaldalu, Villu Kasari, Gemma Atkinson, Tanel Tenson

7. Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Loci: The mazEF Family
Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Masayori Inouye

8. Type II Toxin-Antitoxins: Structural and Functional Aspects of Type II Loci in Mycobacteria
Vickery L. Arcus, Gregory M. Cook

9. Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Loci: The phd/doc Family
Abel Garcia-Pino, Yann Sterckx, Roy D. Magnuson, Remy Loris

10. Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Loci: The fic Family
Arnaud Goepfert, Alexander Harms, Tilman Schirmer, Christoph Dehio

11. Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Loci, hipBA and Persisters
Kim Lewis, Sonja Hansen

12. Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Loci: The Epsilon/zeta Family
Hannes Mutschler, Anton Meinhart

13. Archaeal Type II Toxin-Antitoxins
Shiraz A. Shah, Roger A. Garrett

14. Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Loci: Phylogeny
Hong-Yu Ou, Yiqing Wei, Dexi Bi

15. Type III Toxin-Antitoxin Loci
Tim R. Blower, Francesca L. Short, George P. C. Salmond

16. Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Loci Encoded by Plasmids
Elizabeth Diago-Navarro, Ana M. Hernández-Arriaga, Ramón Díaz-Orejas

17. Toxin-Antitoxin Loci in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Ambre Sala, Patricia Bordes, Gwennaele Fichant, Pierre Genevaux

18. Toxin-Antitoxin Loci in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Wai Ting Chan, Inma Moreno-Córdoba, Chew Chieng Yeo, Manuel Espinosa

19. Biotechnological and Medical Exploitations of Toxin-Antitoxin Genes and Their Components
Guillermo Cueva-Méndez, Belén Pimentel

Keywords: Life Sciences, Microbiology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Medical Microbiology, Apoptosis, Applied Microbiology