Figure 4.

(A) Number of complexes containing at least one subunit with (i) significantly shorter transcript half-life than the median RNA half-life in the complex and (ii) no similarity in transcript half-life to any other complex it is contained in (black, grey and light grey) and number of complexes containing no such subunits (white). In the first case, we distinguished between complexes for which the deviation was conserved between species (black), for which it was not conserved (grey) or for which there were no data available in the other species (light grey). Only protein complexes were considered containing at least three subunits for which RNA half-lives could be determined in the respective species. (B) Number of proteins with significantly shorter transcript half-life than the remaining subunits in all protein complexes they are contained in. We distinguished between cases in which the significant shorter half-life was conserved (black), a shorter RNA half-life than the median RNA half-life for the complex was observed in the other species although this difference was not sufficiently pronounced (dark grey), the shorter half-life was not conserved (grey) and no data were available for the other species (light grey).