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. 2022 Mar 29;13:1663. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29321-5

Fig. 3. Catch-up ρ mediating both decomposing and recycling terminations.

Fig. 3

a Scheme for the catch-up single-molecule assay. Termination is mediated only by catch-up ρ, while an inactive ρ pre-occupies the stand-by site on RNAP and is not replaced by subsequently added wild-type ρ. b ρ-dependency of catch-up recycling and decomposing terminations. The ρ-dependent TEs of recycling (solid) and decomposing (open) in the y-axis are plotted against ρ concentrations on a base-10 log scale in the x-axis. c Relative frequencies of readthrough (n = 251 complexes), recycling (n = 14), and decomposing (n = 70) timings measured in catch-up assays. The data are fitted to single exponential functions. Error bar represents the standard deviation of the mean from n ≥ 3 independent experiments. The numbers of analyzed molecules for b are in Supplementary Table 2. Source Data file includes the data for (b, c).