TABLE 4.

Significantly regulated functional categories for each of the five strains (compared to strain LD61) according to a Wilcoxon test^a

Functional category or subcategory	Expression level in strain:
	UCMA5713	LD55	LL08	LL52	S86
Amino acid biosynthesis	L	L	L	L	L
Aromatic amino acid family	L			L	L
Aspartate family		L	L	L
Branched-chain family	L	L	L	L	L
Histidine family	L	L	L	L	L
Cellular processes			L
Chaperones		H
Transformation					H
Protein and peptide secretion		L
Biosynthesis of cofactors, prosthetic groups, and carriers
Menaquinone and ubiquinone	H	H
Thioredoxin, glutaredoxin, and glutathione				L
Fatty acid and phospholipid metabolism	H				H
Central intermediary metabolism				L
Other	L	L	L	L
Energy metabolism				L
Anaerobic	L	L		L
ATP-PMF conversion	L	L		L
Fermentation				L
Sugars	H	H	H		H
TCA cycleb			H
Other categories			L
Adaptations and atypical conditions					H
Transposon related functions			H
Purines, pyrimidines, nucleosides and nucleotides	L	L	L	L	L
Purine ribonucleotide biosynthesis	L	L	L		L
Pyrimidine ribonucleotide biosynthesis	L	L	L	L	L
Salvage of nucleosides and nucleotides				L
Sugar-nucleotide biosynthesis and interconversions	H		H
Regulatory functions	L	L	L		L
AraC family regulators			L
General			L
LysR family regulators	L	L
MarR family regulators		L	L
Two-component systems					L
Replication
Degradation of DNA	H	H	H		H
Translation					L
Translation factors					L
Ribosomal proteins: synthesis and modification			H
Amino acyl tRNA synthetases					L
Transport and binding proteins	L		L	L	L
Amino acids, peptides and amines				L	L
Anions				L
Carbohydrates, organic alcohols and acids			H

^aP < 0.05. “H” and “L” indicate expression levels that are higher and lower, respectively, than those in LD61.

^bTricarboxylic acid cycle.