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Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Cryptic Prophage Protease LfgB Protects Escherichia coli During Oxidative Stress by Cleaving Antitoxin MqsA
Laura Fernández-García, Xinyu Gao, Michael E. Battisti…·Thomas Keith Wood
The paper uses single-cell analysis to show that the MqsR/MqsA TA system in E. coli protects against oxidative stress via the cryptic prophage protease LfgB, which degrades MqsA to activate stress response genes.
DOI 10.1101/2023.09.23.559088