Table 1.

Oligonucleotide primers used in this study

Name	Sequence
	Decoy oligonucleotides
A24.1	5′-P-atatcactctcgatgtcggcgttttcgccgacatcgagagtgatatagttttct-3′
A24.2	5′-P-atatcaggaatgccagatgcgttttcgcatctggcattcctgatatagttttct-3′
A24.3	5′-P-atactgcctctcggtaagcgttttcgcttaccgagaggcagtatagttttct- 3′
A24.4	5′-P-atatgcagctcgctgcacgcgttttcgcgtgcagcgagctgcatatagttttct-3′
A24.5	5′-P-ataaatctgttgagtagggcgttttcgccctactcaacagatttatagttttct-3′
A24.5 scrambled	5′-P-atagcaatttagatggtggcgttttcgccaccatctaaattgctatagttttct-3′
	For quantitative PCR for decoy copy number
A24.1 copy f	5′-tcgccgacatcgagagtgatat-3′
A24.1 copy r	5′-aaacgccgacatcgagagtga-3′
	For PCR deletion of SCO5812
5812KOf	5′-cgcccggcgatcgcggcggcgtacgctagggacgccatggctacgtgtaggctggagctgcttc-3′
5812KOr	5′-tcggcgggtggcacatacctgcgagcgcgagcgggaccgtcagctagcattccggggatccgtcgacc-3′
5812Testf	5′-tcccgcttttgggaccggggtgt-3′
5812Testr	5′-atcaaacgttggtgcggctcgcg-3′
	For PCR cloning of SCO5812 for complementation
5812exf	5′-aaagatcgaacatatgccgtacgaaccacctacgcac-3′
5812exr	5′-ttacgatcaagctttcagaaatcgaatccgagctgaccc-3′

The cis-regulatory sequences in each of the decoy oligonucleotides are boldface.