TABLE 1.

Summary of 3′ RACE analysis^a

Position of 3′ end	No. of clones
	R	Δpnp mutant	ΔrneG mutant	ΔybeY mutant
+89	66	35	27	5
+90	0	0	0	8
+91	0	0	0	3
+92	0	0	0	7
+93	0	1	0	0
+94	0	0	1	0
+95	0	0	1	0
+96	1	0	0	0
+97	1	1	2	4
+98	0	1	1	2
+99	0	0	1	5
+100	11	17	2	32
+101	0	1	0	4
+102	2	2	1	8
+103	0	0	3	0
+123	0	0	6	0
+124	7	0	38	10
+125	0	0	7	0
+132	14	46	10	15
Total	104	104	100	103

^aFor each strain, at least 100 clones of each 3′ RACE-PCR product were sequenced. The numbers of sequenced clones are indicated in each column. The transcriptional start site of the 4.5S RNA transcript is defined as position +1.