title: Commentary: What Is the Link between Stringent Response, Endoribonuclease Encoding Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Systems and Persistence?
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Génétique et Physiologie Bactérienne, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Gosselies, Belgium.
authors.forename: Laurence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Van Melderen
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University State College, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Wood
keywords: lon protease; persistence; poly-phosphate; ppGpp; toxin-antitoxin