Figure 4. Differential abundance of mRNA and ribosome footprints for adjacent genes in polycistronic units.
Panels are as described in Figure 2. Shown are the first genes in two divergent polycistronic transcription units, which are separated by a region with very low levels of stable transcripts. The direction of transcription is marked by arrows. The asterisk marks a coding sequence (CDS) encoding a conserved hypothetical protein that shows different translation efficiency (TE) in procyclic culture forms (PCF) and bloodstream forms (BF).
