A bacterial protein complex that neutralises its own toxin by complexing the toxin with the antitoxin. The antitoxin can be either a protein or an RNA. The neutralising toxin-antitoxin complex also acts as a transcriptional repressor of the toxin-antitoxin operon.
Source:PMID:16109374,
PMID:25093388,
GOC:bhm
Comment
An example is YoeB (P69348) in Escherichia coli in PMID:16109374 (inferred by direct evidence).