Bacterial retrons encode tripartite toxin/antitoxin systems
J. Bobonis, A. Mateus, B. Pfalz, S. Garcia-Santamarina, M. Galardini, C. Kobayashi, F. Stein, M. M. Savitski, J. R. Elfenbein, H. Andrews-Poymenis, A. Typas
The paper identifies retrons as a novel family of tripartite toxin/antitoxin systems in bacteria, with the reverse transcriptase and msDNA functioning as antitoxin components.
bioRxiv · Jun 22, 2020Microbiology