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Table 2 Structural gene features of A. thaliana genes for the four promoter classes.

From: TC-motifs at the TATA-box expected position in plant genes: a novel class of motifs involved in the transcription regulation

Gene sets

 

All genes

Only TATA-box

Only TC[-39,-26]-PLMs

Only TATAΔ-PLMs

[-39,-26]-PLM-less

Length median

Gene

2293

1936 (5e -23 )

2385 (8e -8 )

2293 (NS)

2334 (2e -7 )

 

5'UTR

158

112 (7e -38 )

175 (3e -5 )

161 (NS)

173 (9e -10 )

 

CDS

1086

966 (5e -14 )

1185 (3e -10 )

1071 (NS)

1119 (1e -4 )

 

All introns

588

521 (1e -4 )

605 (NS)

588 (NS)

614 (NS)

Percentage

Intron-less

18.8

24.5 (4e -9 )

16.7 (NS)

17.5 (NS)

17.1 (NS)

  1. Structural gene features have been assigned by querying the FLAGdb++ database [59]. For median length data, we performed two one-sided Wilcoxon tests allowing the identification of enrichment in wide (bold) or in compact gene structures (underlined) in a set of genes compared with all the other genes, i.e. genes within the whole gene set minus genes within the considered gene set. For intron-less gene percentages, we performed two one-sided Fisher exact tests allowing the identification of higher (bold) or lower (underlined) percentages in a gene set in comparison with all the other genes. NS indicates a non-significant difference. P-values in parenthesis are less than 5% with the Bonferroni correction. Both the first intron and 3'UTR lengths are never biased (data not shown).