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To illustrate this approach, we characterized changes in global gene expression induced in <jats:italic>Salmonella typhimurium<\/jats:italic> TA100 by 3-chloro-4-(dichloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-2(<jats:italic>5H<\/jats:italic>)-furanone (MX), the primary mutagen in chlorinated drinking water. We used the co-expression of genes within an operon and the monotonic increases or decreases in gene expression relative to increasing toxicant concentration to augment our identification of differentially expressed genes beyond Bayesian-t analysis.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Operon analysis increased the number of altered genes by 95% from the list identified by a Bayesian t-test of control to the highest concentration of MX. Monotonic analysis added 46% more genes. A functional analysis of the resulting 448 differentially expressed genes yielded functional changes beyond what would be expected from only the mutagenic properties of MX. In addition to gene-expression changes in DNA-damage response, MX induced changes in expression of genes involved in membrane transport and porphyrin metabolism, among other biological processes. The disruption of porphyrin metabolism might be attributable to the structural similarity of MX, which is a chlorinated furanone, to ligands indigenous to the porphyrin metabolism pathway. Interestingly, our results indicate that the <jats:italic>lexA<\/jats:italic> regulon in <jats:italic>Salmonella<\/jats:italic>, which partially mediates the response to DNA damage, may contain only 60% of the genes present in this regulon in <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>. In addition, <jats:italic>nanH<\/jats:italic> was found to be highly induced by MX and contains a putative <jats:italic>lexA<\/jats:italic> regulatory motif in its regulatory region, suggesting that it may be regulated by <jats:italic>lexA<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Operon and monotonic analyses improved the determination of differentially expressed genes beyond that of Bayesian-t analysis, showing that MX alters cellular metabolism involving pathways other than DNA damage. 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