| Description | Polymorphic toxins systems consist of secreted toxins, primarily involved in intra-specific conflict between related strains of prokaryotes. These toxins are as a rule multi-domain and tend to vary their toxin domains through a process of recombination that might replace an existing toxin domain by a distinct one encoded by standalone cassettes, therefore their name as polymorphic toxins. A key feature that distinguishes the polymorphic toxins from conventional toxins (whose primary targets are in distantly related organisms) is the presence of immunity proteins.This entry represents a predicted immunity protein with an α+β fold and YxxxD, WxG, KxxxE motifs. They are present in bacterial polymorphic toxin systems as an immediate gene neighbour of the toxin gene [ ]. | Name | Immunity protein 58 |
| Short Name | Imm58 | Type | Family |
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