TABLE 2.
Percentages of genes that showed similar expression profiles for the different gene functional categories following cluster analysis
| Functional category | Clustera
|
Genomea | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | II | III
|
IV
|
||||||
| A | B | C | D | E | F | ||||
| Amino acid biosynthesis | 4.3 | 4.6 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 1.8 | ||
| Biosynthesis of cofactors, prosthetic groups, and carriers | 0.8 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 2.1 | 4.5 | 2.4 | |||
| Cell envelope | 5.9 | 7.1 | 4.3 | 2.3 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 4.0 | 3.5 |
| Cellular processes | 8.5 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 5.4 | ||
| Central intermediary metabolism | 1.5 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 1.2 | |||
| DNA metabolism | 3.1 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 2.9 | |||
| Energy metabolism | 21.4 | 2.1 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 5.9 | 15.4 | 6.1 | |
| Fatty acid and phospholipid metabolism | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 2.4 | 1.3 | |||
| Hypothetical or conserved hypothetical | 17.6 | 42.9 | 36.2 | 48.8 | 30.3 | 31.1 | 43.3 | 31.4 | 39.4 |
| Mobile and extrachromosomal element functions | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 6.2 | |||
| Protein fate | 12.8 | 1.1 | 6.1 | 6.6 | 6.2 | 4.6 | 3.8 | ||
| Protein synthesis | 0.6 | 18.9 | 20.2 | 1.2 | 5.0 | 2.8 | |||
| Purines, pyrimidines, nucleosides, and nucleotides | 7.1 | 0.4 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 0.9 | 5.1 | 1.2 | ||
| Regulatory functions | 14.3 | 8.5 | 6.7 | 5.0 | 2.7 | 4.3 | |||
| Signal transduction | 0.0 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.8 | ||
| Transcription | 2.1 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.1 | ||
| Transport and binding proteins | 76.5 | 10.6 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 3.9 | 7.4 | 6.7 | 6.1 | |
| Unknown function | 7.1 | 10.6 | 8.2 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 6.6 | 7.3 | |
a
Some genes are assigned to more than one functional category. Letters beneath clusters III and IV indicate subgroups.