RASTA-Bacteria -- Rapid Automated Scan for Toxins and Antitoxins in Bacteria
What you can do:
A web-based tool for identifying toxin-antitoxin loci in prokaryotes.
Highlights:
- Toxin/antitoxin (TA) systems, viewed as essential regulators of growth arrest and programmed cell death, are widespread among prokaryotes, but remain sparsely annotated. RASTA-Bacteria is an automated method allowing quick and reliable identification of TA loci in sequenced prokaryotic genomes, whether they are annotated open reading frames or not.
- The tool successfully confirmed all reported TA systems, and spotted new putative loci upon screening of sequenced genomes.
Keywords:
- Bacterial Proteins
- Antitoxins
- toxins
- prokaryotes
- toxin/antitoxin
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This record last updated: 09-02-2008