Global mRNA decay analysis at single nucleotide resolution reveals segmental and positional degradation patterns in a Gram-positive bacterium

Table 3 Factors found to be correlated with mRNA half-lives in B. cereus ATCC 10987

Variable^a	P-value	N	Pearson correlation
Expression (RPKM)	10^-15	2,586	0.33
COG class	10^-08	2,586	NA
KEGG pathway	0.001	2,586	NA
G+C% coding region	10^-12	2,586	0.27
Number of genes in operon^b	10^-5/0.04/10^-3	2,586/2421/1847	0.25/0.12/0.10
Second base of RBS	0.02	2,586	NA
Last base of RBS	0.008	2,586	NA
Repeat element part of transcript	10^-18	2,586	NA

^aA description of all the different variables is given in Supplementary Table S4 in Additional file 1. ^bThe three numbers represent the data for cases when i) all operons are used, ii) operons composed of more than 20 ORFs are removed, and iii) operons containing more than 5 ORFs are removed. NA, not available.

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