Effect of a glucose impulse on the CcpA regulon in Staphylococcus aureus

BMC Microbiology

Table 1 Numbers of S. aureus genes subject to regulation by glucose and/or CcpA^a

Regulatory class^b	Number of genes	Genes associated with putative cre-sites
CcpA-dependent in the absence of glucose	226	38
Lower expression in wild-type	118	28
Higher expression in wild-type	108	10
CcpA- and glucose-dependent	155	48
Down-regulated	81	38
Up-regulated	74	10
Partially dependent on CcpA	21	3
CcpA-independent, but glucose-dependent	10	0
Down-regulated	10	0
Up-regulated	0	0

^aA gene was considered to be regulated if transcription was induced or repressed at least two fold
^bClasses partly overlap

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