A multimer of H-NS proteins that is involved in bacterial nucleoid condensation and negative regulation of global gene expression by directly binding to promoter regions. Recognizes both structural and sequence-specific motifs in double-stranded DNA and has binding preference for bent DNA. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12592399 GOC:bhm ]
Synonyms: DNA-binding protein H-NS complex histone-like protein H-NS complex