American Society for Microbiology, Microbiology Spectrum, 3(10), 2022
DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00580-22
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The global rise in antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis has prompted an urgent search for new drugs. Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems allow bacteria to adapt rapidly to environmental changes, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis encodes more TA systems than any known pathogen.