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. 2012 Dec 27;8(12):e1003199. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003199

Figure 1. Degradation of a phage-encoded toxin mRNA in B. subtilis.

Figure 1

The toxin-encoding mRNA txpA is degraded by the combined action of the antisense RNA ratA and the double strand–specific endonuclease RNase III. The txpA–ratA RNA hybrid may be destabilized due to prior processing by the essential RNase Y.