Polymorphic toxin systems: comprehensive characterization of trafficking modes, processing, mechanisms, immunity and ecology using comparative genomics
Dapeng Zhang1, Robson F. de Souza1,2, Vivek Anantharaman1, Lakshminarayan M. Iyer1 and L. Aravind1,*, *Address for correspondence: L. Aravind (aravind@mail.nih.gov)
1National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
2Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
List of active toxins: active toxins are toxins with N-terminal secretory system markers or that are encoded downstream to genes containing such markers