Experiment / E3LBCYIW8Promoter / Core Promoter MPRA

Comprehensive native plant core-promoter STARR-seq in maize protoplasts

Synthetic promoter designs enabled by a comprehensive analysis of plant core promoters

The Arabidopsis, maize, and sorghum comprehensive native-promoter libraries were electroporated into Zea mays B73 leaf protoplasts. Promoter scores are summarized for no-enhancer and 35S-enhancer libraries measured in the dark across two biological replicates.

Processed tables are specific to each experiment. Column names, units, measurements, and table structure are not standardized across the database. Check this experiment’s column definitions and quality-control notes before comparing or combining data.

Perturbation & assay details

35S enhancer absent/present; 16 h dark after electroporation

The assay used the episomal pPSup plant STARR-seq reporter: a 170-bp promoter sequence (-165 to +5 relative to the annotated TSS) was cloned upstream of a maize or sorghum histone 5-prime UTR, an ATG, GFP, and a 12-bp random barcode. Libraries with and without the upstream CaMV 35S enhancer were measured by sequencing barcode-containing input plasmid DNA and reporter mRNA; two independent biological replicates were performed for each library condition.

Processed data

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Column dictionary · 31 definitions
promoter_id
Gene or merged-gene identifier for the tested native 170-bp core promoter.
source_species
Plant species from which the promoter sequence was derived.
gene_type
Source annotation for the associated gene: protein_coding or miRNA.
chromosome
Source-annotation chromosome for the promoter interval.
start
Source-annotation start coordinate of the promoter interval.
end
Source-annotation end coordinate of the promoter interval.
strand
Orientation of the associated source gene/promoter in the source annotation.
gc_content
Fraction of G and C bases in the array-synthesized promoter sequence.
has_annotated_5utr
Whether the source gene has an annotated 5-prime UTR.
library_barcode_count
Number of barcodes linked to this promoter in Supplementary Table 1.
library_mutations
Sequence substitutions introduced during array synthesis to remove cloning restriction sites; blank when none were reported.
sequence
The 170-bp array-synthesized promoter sequence spanning -165 to +5 relative to the annotated TSS.
no_enhancer_dark_rep1_log2
Log2 frequency-normalized STARR-seq output/input barcode enrichment for biological replicate 1 (no 35S enhancer, dark).
no_enhancer_dark_rep2_log2
Log2 frequency-normalized STARR-seq output/input barcode enrichment for biological replicate 2 (no 35S enhancer, dark).
no_enhancer_dark_mean_log2
Mean of the available replicate-level promoter scores for no 35S enhancer, dark, normalized to the with-promoter/no-enhancer control.
no_enhancer_dark_n_replicates
Number of biological replicates with a valid promoter-level score for no 35S enhancer, dark.
no_enhancer_dark_min_n_barcodes
Minimum number of passing barcode assignments across the available replicates for no 35S enhancer, dark.
no_enhancer_dark_rep1_n_barcodes
Number of promoter barcodes passing the input/output count cutoff in replicate 1 (no 35S enhancer, dark).
no_enhancer_dark_rep2_n_barcodes
Number of promoter barcodes passing the input/output count cutoff in replicate 2 (no 35S enhancer, dark).
no_enhancer_dark_rep1_sd
Sample standard deviation of barcode-level normalized enrichment in replicate 1 (no 35S enhancer, dark); blank when fewer than two barcodes pass QC.
no_enhancer_dark_rep2_sd
Sample standard deviation of barcode-level normalized enrichment in replicate 2 (no 35S enhancer, dark); blank when fewer than two barcodes pass QC.
with_enhancer_dark_rep1_log2
Log2 frequency-normalized STARR-seq output/input barcode enrichment for biological replicate 1 (35S enhancer, dark).
with_enhancer_dark_rep2_log2
Log2 frequency-normalized STARR-seq output/input barcode enrichment for biological replicate 2 (35S enhancer, dark).
with_enhancer_dark_mean_log2
Mean of the available replicate-level promoter scores for 35S enhancer, dark, normalized to the with-promoter/no-enhancer control.
with_enhancer_dark_n_replicates
Number of biological replicates with a valid promoter-level score for 35S enhancer, dark.
with_enhancer_dark_min_n_barcodes
Minimum number of passing barcode assignments across the available replicates for 35S enhancer, dark.
with_enhancer_dark_rep1_n_barcodes
Number of promoter barcodes passing the input/output count cutoff in replicate 1 (35S enhancer, dark).
with_enhancer_dark_rep2_n_barcodes
Number of promoter barcodes passing the input/output count cutoff in replicate 2 (35S enhancer, dark).
with_enhancer_dark_rep1_sd
Sample standard deviation of barcode-level normalized enrichment in replicate 1 (35S enhancer, dark); blank when fewer than two barcodes pass QC.
with_enhancer_dark_rep2_sd
Sample standard deviation of barcode-level normalized enrichment in replicate 2 (35S enhancer, dark); blank when fewer than two barcodes pass QC.
enhancer_effect_dark_log2
Difference between the with-35S-enhancer and no-enhancer dark mean promoter scores (with enhancer minus no enhancer).

Quality control

The authors discarded promoter-barcode subassemblies with fewer than 5 assembly reads and barcode observations with fewer than 5 input or output reads. The package retained 77,962 native promoter rows with a complete 170-bp sequence and at least one finite maize-protoplast condition score after applying the WT/full-length construct filter; replicate-level scores are retained when available, and missing condition cells remain blank.

Curation notes

This table combines three source promoter species because the same maize-protoplast assay system was used for each library. The assay organism is Zea mays; source promoter assemblies use Araport11, B73 RefGen v4, and NCBI_v3.43 annotations, so reference_genome is null at the combined-experiment level. For Arabidopsis protoplast replicate 2, the authors' workflow reuses the replicate-1 input plasmid count file; this source convention is preserved by the processing script.

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