TABLE 3.

Mean mRNA half-lives of CspC-regulated transcripts as determined by RNA decay assays^a

Gene	Wild type			cspC::tn
	Half-life (min)	Decay constant (k)	R2	Half-life (min)a	Decay constant (k)	R2
adeJ	5.326	0.1301 ± 0.015	0.954	5.206	0.1331 ± 0.020	0.928
adeG	4.773	0.1452 ± 0.016	0.926	4.236	0.1636 ± 0.024	0.884
adeL	1.280	0.5417 ± 0.020	0.999	2.540	0.2728 ± 0.022	0.969
ABUW_RS06565	1.753	0.396 ± 0.025	0.990	2.565	0.270 ± 0.016	0.993
recA	4.674	0.1483 ± 0.002	0.999	4.890	0.1418 ± 0.031	0.880

^aThe decay constant (k) mean was used to calculate the half-life using t_1/2 = ln(2)/k, where t_1/2 represents the mRNA half-life. The decay constant is reported as the mean ± the standard error.