ChIP-seq analysis reveals the direct targets of GltR in the P. aeruginosa genome

we performed ChIP-seq assays to identify in vivo targets of GltR. The plasmid mini-gltR-flag-lacz was constructed and the resultant plasmid was fused to P. aeruginosa strain PAO1, yielding PAO1/mini-gltR-flag-lacz. We investigated GltR-binding to the chromosome of PAO1 during growth with glucose by ChIP-Seq. Sequence reads obtained from three independent ChIP-Seq experiments using anti-flag antibody and mapped to the P. aeruginosa PAO1 genome.Using the MACS software,we identified 55 enriched loci (q-value < 0.05) harboring GltR-binding peaks, that were enriched > 3-fold, but were absent in control sample conducted without anti-flag antibody. Overall design: Perform a genome-wide screen for GltR binding sites.