TABLE 2.
Functional categories overrepresented among genes whose transcript abundance decreased significantly in association with glutamate availabilitya
| Category | No. of array elements (% of total)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Tohama I genome | Array elements whose transcript abundance changed in association with glutamate availability | |
| Metabolism of small molecules | 626 (16.0) | 70 (22.1) |
| Ribosome constituents | 53 (1.4) | 42 (13.2) |
| Macromolecule synthesis, modification | 206 (5.3) | 32 (10.1) |
| Virulence factors | 67 (1.7) | 15 (4.7) |
| Folding and ushering proteins | 23 (0.59) | 8 (2.5) |
a
P < 0.05.