Sentences with phrase «fic toxin»
A research team from the University of Basel's Biozentrum has now discovered how bacteria enter a sleep mode using a so - called FIC toxin.
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Next, Dehio's team aims to elucidate the evolutionary link between these original FIC toxins and the FIC proteins, which are injected as virulence factors into host cells by diverse pathogens.
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Prof. Christoph Dehio's research group at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has uncovered a new mechanism of action of toxins from the group of FIC proteins.
Dehio's team now first discovered such toxins among FIC proteins that can be found in all domains of life and demonstrated that they act by altering cellular DNA.