Entericidin

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title: "Entericidin" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["protein-families"] description: "Bacterial antidote/toxin peptides" topic_path: "general/protein-families" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entericidin" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Bacterial antidote/toxin peptides ::

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Field	Value
Symbol	Entericidin
Name	Entericidin
Pfam	PF08085
Pfam_clan	CL0421
InterPro	IPR012556
TCDB	9.B.13
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| Symbol = Entericidin | Name = Entericidin | image = | width = | caption = | Pfam = PF08085 | Pfam_clan = CL0421 | InterPro = IPR012556 | SMART = | PROSITE = | MEROPS = | SCOP = | TCDB = 9.B.13 | OPM family = | OPM protein = | CAZy = | CDD = In molecular biology, entericidins are bacterial antidote/toxin peptides. The entericidin locus is activated in the stationary phase of growth under high osmolarity conditions by rho-S and simultaneously repressed by the osmoregulatory EnvZ/OmpR signal transduction pathway. The entericidin locus encodes tandem paralogous genes (ecnAB) and directs the synthesis of two small cell-envelope lipoproteins (entericidin A and entericidin B) which can maintain plasmids in bacterial population by means of post-segregational killing.

References

References

1. (July 1998). "The entericidin locus of Escherichia coli and its implications for programmed bacterial cell death". J. Mol. Biol..

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