The chemicals used were IgE (Fitzgerald), Thrombin (Haematologic Technologies, Inc.), BSA and HSA (Sigma), neuropeptide Y (Pheonix Pharmaceuticals), Illustra NAP-25 desalting columns and Cy3 Mono-Reactive Dye Pack (GE Healthcare), NanoDrop (Thermo Scientific), nuclease free water (Gibco). Microarray equipment consisted of the following: custom 8 × 15 k DNA microarrays, 8 × 15 k gasket slides, ozone barrier slides, hybridization chambers, scanner cassettes, hybridization oven, and High-resolution Microarray Scanner (all Agilent) and slide rack and wash dishes (Shandon) and Kimtech polypropylene wipes (Kimberly-Clark). All DNA was purchased through IDT:
4A018: GGTTGGTTTTTCAATCAGCGATCGCGGAATCCAGGGTTAGGCGGCCAACC (with and without 3′-T10-Biotin moiety).
TFBS: GGTTGGTGTGGTTGG.
Buffers: Binding [PBSMTB]-1x PBS (8.1 mM Na2HPO4, 1.1 mM KH2PO4, 2.7 mM KCl, 137 mM NaCl, pH 7.4) + 1 mM MgCl2 + 0.1% Tween-20 and 1% BSA; Washing [PBSM]-1x PBS (8.1 mM Na2HPO4, 1.1 mM KH2PO4, 2.7 mM KCl, 137 mM NaCl, pH 7.4) + 1 mM MgCl2; Rinse [R]-1/4 dilution of PBSM and nuclease free water.