Fig. 5. Detection of transcriptional reinitiation.
a A DNA template contains two transcription units with a roadblock (purple hexagon) between them. Transcripts from the downstream unit have a probing target (brown box). b Three possible courses are reinitiation on the downstream unit after TS termination, no reinitiation after TS termination, and readthrough at TS with continued downstream transcription. c Three types of fluorescence time traces were observed; Cy3 vanishing with Cy5 probing (type 1), Cy3 vanishing without Cy5 probing (type 2), and Cy3 nonvanishing with Cy5 probing (type 3).