Figure 3.

Genes with and without 3′ peaks of RNAPII have distinctive features. (A) Comparison of expression levels in genes that are devoid of any peak of total RNAPII at the 3′-end (green); genes with a 3′ peak of total RNAPII that is not phosphorylated on Ser5 (red); and genes with a 3′ peak of total RNAPII that is phosphorylated on Ser5 (blue). Gene expression levels were estimated according to RNA-seq (Mouse ES and CD4+/CD8+ cells) and microarray data (human CD4+ T and MCF7 cells). (B) Comparison of expression levels in genes with and without interactions between the promoter and termination region identified by ChIA-PET. Gene expression levels were estimated according to microarray data. (C) Comparison of gene length in the indicated categories. (*) P-value <0.05; (**) P-value <0.0005 by two-sided Mann-Whitney test. (D) Frequency of poly(A) signal AATAAA in genes that either contain a 3′ peak of total RNAPII or are devoid of peak. Genes were split into three equally sized groups according to expression level (high, medium, and low). (**) P-value <0.0005 by χ2 test. In boxplots, values inside each box correspond to the middle 50% of the data and the line within the box represents the median; the ends of the vertical lines at the top and bottom of each box indicate the maximum and minimum limits of the distribution; values behind the lines (circles) are suspected outliers.

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