Table 1. The essential Caulobacter genome.
| Quantity | Size (bp) | Fraction of genome (%)a | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The identified essential non-coding, protein-coding and regulatory genome features are shown. | |||
| aFraction of the entire Caulobacter genome encoding essential elements. | |||
| Essential non-coding elements | 130 | 14 991 | 0.37 |
| Non-coding elements, unknown function | 91 | 10 893 | 0.27 |
| tRNAs | 29 | 2312 | 0.06 |
| Small non-coding RNAs | 8 | 1488 | 0.04 |
| Genome replication elements in the Cori | 2 | 298 | 0.01 |
| Essential ORFs | 480 | 444 417 | 11.00 |
| Metabolism | 176 | 160 011 | 3.96 |
| Ribosome function | 95 | 76 420 | 1.89 |
| Cell wall & membrane biogenesis | 54 | 63 393 | 1.57 |
| Proteins of unknown function | 49 | 30 469 | 0.75 |
| Cell cycle, division and DNA replication | 43 | 52 322 | 1.29 |
| Other cellular processes | 39 | 36 017 | 0.89 |
| Transcription | 15 | 16 417 | 0.41 |
| Signal transduction | 9 | 9368 | 0.23 |
| Essential promoter regions | 402 | 33 533 | 0.83 |
| Contained within intergenic sequences | 210 | 13 150 | 0.33 |
| Extending into upstream ORFs | 101 | 11 428 | 0.28 |
| Driving operons | 91 | 8955 | 0.22 |
| Essential Caulobacter genome | 492 941 | 12.19 | |