Figure 2

The effect of essentiality, toxicity degree, and protein interaction degree on gene expression variation. A) Bar-plot of the expression variation of all the genes with a given toxicity degree together with the linear regression fit to the expression variation of the genes in relation to the toxicity degree. The linear coefficient β = -0.0629, R² = 0.75%, and the p-value = 4.73e-08. B) The mean expression variation and the linear regression fit to the expression variation with respect to PPI degree for non-essential genes stratified according to toxicity degree and for the essential genes. The β values are -0.0172, -0.0230, -0.0304, -0.0164 and -0.0460 for toxicity degree 0, 1, 2, and 3, and the essential genes, respectively. The corresponding p-values are 0.0313, 0.0141, 0.0011, 0.2248 and 0.0013, respectively. R² is 0.31%, 0.75%, 2.75%, 0.8% and 4.41%, respectively. The labels are the same as those in Figure 1.