Differential Binding Profiles of StpA in Wild-Type and hns Mutant Cells: a Comparative Analysis of Cooperative Partners by Chromatin Immunoprecipitation-Microarray Analysis

ABSTRACT We performed chromatin immunoprecipitation-microarray analysis to investigate differences in function between StpA and H-NS in Escherichia coli cells. StpA binding regions essentially overlap those of H-NS in wild-type cells, while they are reduced to one-third in the hns mutant. The H-NS binding profile was unaffected by stpA inactivation.

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