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. 2008 Dec 19;8(2):170–180. doi: 10.1128/EC.00330-08

TABLE 2.

Overrepresented gene categories for K-means clustersa

Group Overrepresented gene categories
K1 Protein biosynthesis, small-GTPase-mediated signal transduction, calcium ion transport, protein folding
K2 rRNA processing, transcription, ribosome biogenesis, purine nucleotide biosynthesis, cell adhesion, amino acid metabolism
K3 Protein biosynthesis, glycolysis
K4 Translation initiation factor activity, protein biosynthesis, carbohydrate transport, oligopeptide transport, cell cycle
K5 Tricarboxylic acid cycle, glycolysis, fatty acid biosynthesis, anion transport, GTP biosynthesis, UTP biosynthesis, protein nucleus import
K6 Chitin synthase activity, proton transport
K7 Signal transduction, actin-binding activity
K8 Ion channel activity
K9 Amino acid transport, intracellular protein transport, protein serine/threonine kinase activity, calcium ion-binding activity, signal transducer activity
K10 Chromosome organization and biogenesis
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A functional category was considered overrepresented if its statistical association with its presence in the cluster was significant (P < 0.05) (see Fig. 2).