Table 4 Number of genes associated with general COG functional categories
Code | Meeks et al. (2001) | This study | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Count | %a | Count | %a | ||
E | 246 | 6.23 | 245 | 6.04 | Amino acid transport and metabolism |
G | 185 | 4.69 | 192 | 4.73 | Carbohydrate transport and metabolism |
D | 43 | 1.09 | 39 | 0.96 | Cell cycle control, cell division, chromosome partitioning |
N | 63 | 1.6 | 67 | 1.65 | Cell motility |
M | 276 | 6.99 | 277 | 6.83 | Cell wall/membrane/envelope biogenesis |
B | 2 | 0.05 | 2 | 0.05 | Chromatin structure and dynamics |
H | 240 | 6.08 | 240 | 5.91 | Coenzyme transport and metabolism |
V | 144 | 3.65 | 153 | 3.77 | Defense mechanisms |
C | 207 | 5.24 | 210 | 5.17 | Energy production and conversion |
W | 20 | 0.51 | 23 | 0.57 | Extracellular structures |
S | 242 | 6.13 | 270 | 6.65 | Function unknown |
R | 553 | 14.01 | 564 | 13.9 | General function prediction only |
P | 233 | 5.9 | 237 | 5.84 | Inorganic ion transport and metabolism |
U | 37 | 0.94 | 38 | 0.94 | Intracellular trafficking, secretion, and vesicular transport |
I | 143 | 3.62 | 144 | 3.55 | Lipid transport and metabolism |
– | 43 | 1.09 | 68 | 1.68 | Mobilome: prophages, transposons |
F | 76 | 1.93 | 74 | 1.82 | Nucleotide transport and metabolism |
O | 198 | 5.02 | 204 | 5.03 | Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones |
A | 1 | 0.03 | 1 | 0.02 | RNA processing and modification |
L | 138 | 3.5 | 140 | 3.45 | Replication, recombination and repair |
Q | 180 | 4.56 | 194 | 4.78 | Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism |
T | 318 | 8.05 | 313 | 7.71 | Signal transduction mechanisms |
K | 155 | 3.93 | 159 | 3.92 | Transcription |
J | 205 | 5.19 | 204 | 5.03 | Translation, ribosomal structure and biogenesis |
– | 3359 | 49.46 | 4177 | 53.72 | Not in COG |