Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 2 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/genetics.1.009
Commentary on "Type II Toxin-antitoxin Systems Have a Peculiar Localization in Escherichia Coli Cells"
Alexander Mager1, Hanna Engelberg-Kulka1,*
- 1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
Corresponding Author
Hanna Engelberg-Kulka, hanita@cc.huji.ac.il
Received Date: March 11, 2022
Accepted Date: April 18, 2022
Mager A, Engelberg-Kulka H. Commentary on "Type II Toxin-antitoxin Systems Have a Peculiar Localization in Escherichia Coli Cells". Arch Mol Biol Genet. 2022;1(2):66-68.
Copyright: © 2022 Mager A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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