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. 2018 Dec 20;7:e40618. doi: 10.7554/eLife.40618

Appendix 2—figure 1. Calibration of expression measurements with and without cAMP.

Appendix 2—figure 1.

(A) Measurements of t+raw (in 250 µM cAMP) vs t-raw (in 0 µM cAMP) for promoters in which the CRP binding site has been replaced by a non-functional ‘null’ site. As expected, these data lie close to the t+raw=t-raw diagonal (dotted line). (B) Upon closer inspection, however, we found that t+raw values consistently fell slightly below corresponding t-raw values. Using least-squares fitting we found that, on average, t+raw/traw=0.8520.053+0.056 where uncertainties indicate a 95% confidence interval (reflecting 1.96 times the standard error of the mean in log space). To correct for this bias, we plot and fit models to t+=t+raw and t-=0.855×t-raw throughout this paper.