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Up to now few targets only are known for this regulator and mainly in one strain (Strain 13). Due to the high genomic and phenotypic variability in toxin production by different strains, the development of effective strategies to counteract <jats:italic>C. perfringens<\/jats:italic> infections requires methodologies to reconstruct the VirR regulon from genome sequences.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>We implemented a two step computational strategy allowing to consider available information concerning VirR binding sites in a few species to scan all genomes of the same species, assuming the VirR targets are at least partially conserved across these strains. Results obtained are in agreement with previous works where experimental validation of the promoters have been performed and showed the presence of a core and an accessory regulon of VirR in <jats:italic>C. perfringens<\/jats:italic> strains with three target genes also located on plasmids. Moreover, the type E strain JGS1987 has the largest predicted regulon with as many as 10 VirR targets not found in the other genomes.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>In this work we exploited available experimental information concerning the targets of the VirR toxin regulator in one <jats:italic>C. perfringens<\/jats:italic> strain to obtain plausible predictions concerning target genes in genomes and plasmids of nearby strains. Our predictions are available for wet-lab researchers working on less characterized <jats:italic>C. perfringens<\/jats:italic> strains that can thus design focused experiments reducing the search space of their experiments and increasing the probability of characterizing positive targets with less efforts. Main result was that the VirR regulon is variable in different <jats:italic>C. perfringens<\/jats:italic> strains with 4 genes controlled in all but one strains and most genes controlled in one or two strains only.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2180-10-65","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,2,25]],"date-time":"2010-02-25T19:17:00Z","timestamp":1267125420000},"update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Comparative genomics of VirR regulons in Clostridium perfringens strains"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Antonio","family":"Frandi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alessio","family":"Mengoni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Matteo","family":"Brilli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,2,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"1021_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"459","DOI":"10.1007\/s00726-009-0259-2","volume":"37","author":"D Whitworth","year":"2009","unstructured":"Whitworth D, Cock P: Evolution of prokaryotic two-component systems: insights from comparative genomics. 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