Regulation at complex bacterial promoters: how bacteria use different promoter organizations to produce different regulatory outcomes.

Most bacterial promoters are regulated by several signals. This is reflected in the complexity of their organization, with multiple binding sites for different transcription factors. Studies of a small number of complex promoters have revealed different distinct mechanisms that integrate the effects of multiple transcription factors.

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