Alignment of H-NS, H-NS2, and StpA amino acid sequences. Alignment of H-NS, H-NS2, and StpA amino acid sequences. H-NS, H-NS2, and StpA sequence alignment showing the conserved amino acid sequence (dark and light gray). The black box shows the consensus sequence. Alignment was performed using the T-Coffee algorithm (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/tcoffee/). The H-NS, H-NS2, and StpA sequences have been deposited in NCBI under accession numbers WP_001287378.1, WP_001278198.1, and WP_000115383.1, respectively. The light-gray and dark-gray bars above the sequence alignment show, respectively, the N- and C-terminal domains (dimerization/oligomerization and DNA binding domains, respectively). A. Prieto et al. mSystems 2018; doi:10.1128/mSystems.00220-17