Table 2.
Gene Ontology term | Representation | Representation percentage | |
Biological process | Metabolism | 312 | 74% |
Biosynthesis | 64 | 15% | |
Protein metabolism | 57 | 14% | |
Catabolism | 22 | 5% | |
Nucleic acid metabolism | 20 | 5% | |
Cell growth and/or maintenance | 53 | 13% | |
Transport | 44 | 10% | |
Response to stimulus and stress | 19 | 5% | |
Photosynthesis | 16 | 4% | |
Cell communication | 15 | 4% | |
Signal transduction | 12 | 3% | |
Homeostasis | 3 | 1% | |
Development | 1 | <1% | |
Cell death | 1 | <1% | |
Molecular function | Catalytic activity | 132 | 36% |
Hydrolase activity | 36 | 10% | |
Transferase activity | 25 | 7% | |
Oxidoreductase activity | 22 | 6% | |
Kinase activity | 12 | 3% | |
Binding | 107 | 29% | |
Nucleotide binding | 65 | 18% | |
Metal ion binding | 20 | 5% | |
Transporter activity | 64 | 18% | |
Electron transporter activity | 16 | 4% | |
Carrier activity | 12 | 3% | |
Structural molecule activity | 40 | 11% | |
Translation regulator activity | 10 | 3% | |
Signal transducer activity | 4 | 1% | |
Chaperone activity | 3 | 1% | |
Enzyme regulator activity | 2 | 1% | |
Motor activity | 1 | <1% | |
Transcription regulator activity | 1 | <1% | |
Cellular component | Intracellular | 135 | 75% |
Membrane | 45 | 25% |
Note that one gene product may be assigned to more than one GO terms, and one children term can fit into multiple parental categories. The representation means the number of non-redundant ESTs that can be mapped to a certain GO term. The representation percentage is based on the total number of GO mappings in each of the three major ontologies (biological process: 420, molecular function: 364, cellular component: 180).