Table 2.

Correlation coefficient analysis of promoter elements and promoter activities

Promoter elementsa	Correlation with late promoter activities		Correlation with intermediate promoter activities
	Spearman rb	P valuec	Spearman rb	P valuec
T following TAAA	0.56	<0.0001	−0.01	0.9453
T content (−12 to −8)	0.45	0.001	−0.01	0.9344
T content (−12 to −8) + T following TAAA	0.69	<0.0001	−0.05	0.7579
A content (−22 to −14)	−0.11	0.4301	0.49	0.0004

^aCoding strand nucleotides are shown

^b0.00–0.19, very weak; 0.20–0.39, weak; 0.40–0.59, moderate; 0.60–0.79, strong; 0.80–1.00, very strong.

^cP<0.05 considered significant.