Table 4. Number of genes associated with the 25 general COG functional categories.
| Code | Value | %agea | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| J | 142 | 6.8 | Translation |
| A | 0 | 0 | RNA processing and modification |
| K | 77 | 3.7 | Transcription |
| L | 93 | 4.5 | Replication, recombination and repair |
| B | 2 | 0.1 | Chromatin structure and dynamics |
| D | 20 | 1.0 | Cell cycle control, mitosis and meiosis |
| Y | 0 | 0 | Nuclear structure |
| V | 16 | 0.8 | Defense mechanisms |
| T | 41 | 2.0 | Signal transduction mechanisms |
| M | 142 | 6.8 | Cell wall/membrane biogenesis |
| N | 41 | 2.0 | Cell motility |
| Z | 0 | 0 | Cytoskeleton |
| W | 0 | 0 | Extracellular structures |
| U | 40 | 1.9 | Intracellular trafficking and secretion |
| O | 89 | 4.3 | Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones |
| C | 149 | 7.1 | Energy production and conversion |
| G | 126 | 6.0 | Carbohydrate transport and metabolism |
| E | 250 | 12.0 | Amino acid transport and metabolism |
| F | 58 | 2.8 | Nucleotide transport and metabolism |
| H | 117 | 5.6 | Coenzyme transport and metabolism |
| I | 113 | 5.4 | Lipid transport and metabolism |
| P | 70 | 3.4 | Inorganic ion transport and metabolism |
| Q | 78 | 3.7 | Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism |
| R | 271 | 13.0 | General function prediction only |
| S | 155 | 7.4 | Function unknown |
| - | 503 | 21.2 | Not in COGs |
a) The total is based on the total number of protein coding genes in the annotated genome.