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Melanie Hirsch

Bar-Ilan University

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CopY as a Transcriptional Duet Orchestrating Copper Homeostasis via Asymmetry-Dependent DNA Affinity

Melanie Hirsch, Aparna Liz Benny, Lukas Hofmann, Yulia Shenberger, Lada Gevorkyan‐Airapetov, Sunil Saxena, Sharon Ruthstein

This study investigates how CopY, a bacterial copper regulator, uses two non-equivalent operator sites to repress gene expression through distinct molecular mechanisms.

bioRxiv · Oct 8, 2026 · PreprintBiophysics