Figure 9.

Variance of abundance within known operons. Only the 33 operons for which we have abundance data of 3 or more proteins are considered. The variance of all 1050 proteins is 0.35 and shown as dashed line. Low variance within an operon shows that the abundance of its proteins is similar. Here in 91% (30 of 33) of all operons the variance is lower than the variance of all proteins (left to the vertical bar). Copy number values are distributed according to the extreme value distribution and were therefore logarithmized for better representation.