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Ser/Thr phosphorylation of

Shafinaz Rahman Sarah, Abhishek Garg, Sadiyah Afroz, Shaleen Korch, Arjun Ray, Amita Gupta, Vandana Malhotra

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7 authors.

Shafinaz Rahman Sarah *Department of Biochemistry, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Abhishek Garg *Department of Biochemistry, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.ORCID 0000-0002-3436-2531
Sadiyah AfrozDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India.ORCID 0009-0005-5066-2015
Shaleen KorchDepartment of Pharmacology, Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona, USA.
Arjun RayDepartment of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India.
Amita GuptaDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India.
Vandana MalhotraDepartment of Biochemistry, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.ORCID 0000-0001-6138-1909

Funding

Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India BT/PR31937/MED/29/1404/2019Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India BT/PR45830/MED/12/963/2022IHUB Anubhuti IHUB Anubhuti/Project Grant/25Science and Engineering Research Board SUR/2022/005466
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Toxin-antitoxin (TA) modules represent genetic elements implicated in bacterial persistence. IMPORTANCE: Bacterial pathogens rely on the phenomenon of persistence as a survival strategy to combat the adverse environmental conditions encountered during infection. As a stochastic process, the driving force(s) that potentiate the formation of persisters in a bacterial population are largely unclear. This study is a step towards the discovery of intricate regulatory mechanisms that coordinate a synchronized TA cellular program. We propose a model where the TA module is regulated post-translationally, specifically via Ser/Thr phosphorylation disrupting the interaction between the toxin and antitoxin proteins as a mechanism to regulate TA function.

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AntitoxinsBacterial ProteinsBacterial ToxinsMycobacterium tuberculosisProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesSerineThreonineToxin-Antitoxin SystemsMolecular Dynamics SimulationPhosphorylationProtein BindingProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalAntitoxinsBacterial ProteinsBacterial ToxinsProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesSerineThreonineMycobacterium tuberculosispersistencePknKpost-translational modificationregulationSer/Thr phosphorylationtoxin-antitoxin modules

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PMID40525867
PMCPMC12239584

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