Journal: Science (New York, N.Y.)
Article Title: mRNA initiation and termination are spatially coordinated
doi: 10.1126/science.ado8279
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Schematic of a gene with alternative start and end sites. Alternative first exons (AFEs , dark grey ) and their respective transcription start sites (TSSs) are shown on left, while alternative last exons (ALEs, light grey ) and their respective polyadenylation sites (PASs) are shown on right. Exons are numbered by the order in which they appear in the direction of transcription (ordinal position). (B) The total number of protein coding genes ( y-axis ) that use a given number of annotated AFEs ( black ) or ALEs ( grey ), aggregated across all GTEx tissues. (C) Distribution of Pearson’s r between the number of expressed AFEs and ALEs per gene in all GTEX samples (n= 17,350, mean r = 0.53). Inset shows a representative ovary sample, marked by the dashed line of the distribution plot, in which genes expressing n alternative first exons (AFEs, x-axis ) and n alternative last exons (ALEs, y-axis ) are depicted. Color intensity represents the number of genes exhibiting each unique AFE–ALE count combination. The trend line ( black ) reflects the correlation between the number of expressed AFEs and ALEs in genes using multiple AFE and ALEs (Pearson’s r = 0.55, p-value = 1.85 × 10−⁸). (D) Heatmap of Pearson’s r for pairwise correlations between the relative usage (Ψ) of AFEs and ALEs based on their ordinal position for genes with multiple first and last exons ( left panel , n= 1,560,899 exons) and genes with exactly 3 AFEs and 3 ALEs ( right panel , n = 63,811 exons).
Article Snippet: For the second batch ( MAST1 , ZNF638 , and control RNA), extracted RNA was sent to Novogene Corporation for polyA enriched mRNA library preparation and high-throughput sequencing on a NovaSeq 6000 with 150nt paired-end reads.
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