Fig. 7: 3’ UTR-derived transcripts identified in the LB RNAtag-seq dataset.

a For each gene with a primary or a distant primary 3’ terminus in the LB RNAtag-seq dataset, the log₁₀ transformed average number of read starts within the CDS and 3’ UTR were computed. Presented is the scatterplot of these values for one of the libraries and the regression line fitted (dashed black line). The correlation coefficient is r = 0.85 (p ≤ 3.58E−252 by two-sided Student’s t test). Results for the other two libraries are presented in Supplementary Fig. 8. Genes that were identified as outliers (Methods) are colored red. b–d Presented is the coverage along the genes malM (b), tdcG (c), and chiQ (d) that were identified as outliers in a. Transcription start sites identified by Thomason et al.⁴³ are indicated by arrows and the 3’ termini by diamond arrows. The gene coding sequences are marked by wide arrows containing the gene names.