ChIP-chip of MG1655 with antibody against E. coli RNAP beta subunit under various conditions

We integrated RNAP binding regions (RBRs) and mRNA transcript abundance to determine segments of contiguous transcription originating from promoter regions. To measure RBRs at a genome scale, we employed a ChIP-chip method to E. coli K-12 MG1655 grown in the presence or absence of rifampicin under multiple growth conditions using antibody against E. coli RNAP beta subunit. A twelve ChIP-chip study using immunoprecipitated DNA (IP-DNA) from four separate culture conditions with and/or without rifampicin treatment. The high-density oligonucleotide tiling arrays used were consisted of 371,034 oligonucleotide probes spaced 25 bp apart (25-bp overlap between two probes) across the E. coli genome (NimbleGen). Experiments were conducted as biological duplicates or triplicates (different cultures).