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Abstract

Determining transcription factor (TF) recognition motifs or operator sites is central to understanding gene regulation, yet few operators have been characterized. In this study, we used a protein-binding microarray (PBM) to discover the DNA recognition sites and putative regulons for three TetR and one MarR family TFs derived from , which are common to the genus . We also describe the development and application of a more streamlined version of the PBM technology that significantly reduced the experimental time. Despite the genus containing many pathogenically important species, only a handful of TF operator sites have been experimentally characterized for to date. Our study provides a significant addition to this knowledge base and illustrates some general challenges of discovering operators on a large scale for prokaryotes.

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