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A generic approach to identify Transcription Factor-specific operator motifs; Inferences for LacI-family mediated regulation in Lactobacillus plantarum WCFS1

Christof Francke1,2* email, Robert Kerkhoven2* email, Michiel Wels1,2,3 email and Roland J Siezen1,2,3 email

TI Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 557, 6700AN Wageningen, The Netherlands

Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (260), NCMLS, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, P.O. Box 9101, 6500HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands

NIZO food research, P.O. Box 20, 6710BA Ede, The Netherlands

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Genomics 2008, 9:145doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-145

Published: 27 March 2008

Additional files

Additional file 1:

The number of LacI-family members in sequenced Firmicutes. The file lists the species whose genome was studied, their abbreviation and the number of LacI-family TFs recovered for each genome.

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Additional file 2:

IDs and sequences of LacI-family TFs in sequenced Firmicutes. The file contains the sequences that were considered in this study with their different IDs.

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Additional file 3:

Multiple sequence alignment of LacI-family TFs of sequenced Firmicutes. The file gives the sequence alignment of the TFs considered in this study.

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Additional file 4:

Neighbor Joining tree for the LacI-family TFs of sequenced Firmicutes. The file gives the bootstrapped (n = 250) NJ-tree for the LacI-family TF homologs of the Firmicutes, Salmonella and E. coli.

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Additional file 5:

Multiple sequence alignments and Neighbor joining trees for the two functional domains of the LacI-family TF homologs in L. plantarum. The file contains images of the sequence alignments and the bootstrapped (n = 1000) NJ-trees for the two TF functional domains.

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Additional file 6:

Gene context conservation of the LacI-family TF homologs in L. plantarum WCFS1. The file provides a visualization of context information that was used to define the GOOFEs and contains the motifs used to perform the MAST searches.

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Additional file 7:

LacI-family homologs deviant at position 24 and their putative operators. The file lists the putative binding motifs for several LacITFs with a conserved substitution of the conserved arginine at position 24 (in Figure 2).

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Additional file 8:

MAST output. The file contains the parsed output of the MAST searches. A new sheet is provided for each criterion that was applied to constrain the list. The results are color-coded.

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Additional file 9:

The functional annotation of the genes and operons regulated by LacI-TFs in L. plantarum. The file contains a functional description of the genes and operons that putatively constitute the minimal regulons depicted in Figure 3 (with relevant references).

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