Fig. 4

Possible base-pairing and cross-linking between the partners in chimeric reads. a, chimeric reads of ssrS and proM; b, chimeric reads of proM and glyT. The two chimeric partners are shown, respectively, in two parts of the panel, separated by a vertical line labeled “x”. Each sub-panel has its own horizontal coordinates to show the corresponding locations of partner RNA fragments in the parent gene transcript. For a parent transcript, unpaired sequences were marked by a thick line on the horizontal axis. Anticodons are shown as three short vertical lines. When the initial and/or end positions of a parent transcript are shown, they are also marked with vertical dot lines. For each read, the two partner RNA fragments are drawn horizontally as two black lines. Possible base-pairing and cross-linking sequences are marked above the lines with colored horizontal lines. Various colors were used to distinguish different possible combinations of the sequences