Skip to main content

Table 3 Presence of the eight human promoter motifs in the three promoter classes

From: Complex organizational structure of the genome revealed by genome-wide analysis of single and alternative promoters in Drosophila melanogaster

  Occurrence percentagea p valueb
Motif UPs FAPs DAPs UPs vs. FAPs UPs vs. DAPs FAPs vs. DAPs
CCAAT 12.25 10.16 9.78 ns ns ns
SP1 37.91 34.35 30.69 ns 1.33e-04 ns
CLUS1 1.82 0.81 0.50 ns ns ns
USF 2.76 1.94 1.61 ns ns ns
CREB 3.02 2.42 3.47 ns ns ns
TATA 6.60 1.94 3.22 6.97e-07 1.47e-04 ns
NRF-1 10.23 3.71 3.34 2.65e-08 1.89e-11 ns
ETS 17.28 5.97 6.44 1.07e-14 1.26e-16 ns
Nonec 33.59 51.77 53.59 3.75e-17 9.32e-25 ns
  1. apercentage of the promoters in a class having the specific motif.
  2. bcalculated using Fisher's exact test. Holm's method was used for multiple hypothesis testing. ns, not significant.
  3. cpercentage of promoters without any known motifs.
Back to article page

BMC Genomics

ISSN: 1471-2164

Contact us