Table 4. Number of genes associated with the 25 general COG functional categories.
| Code | Value | %agea | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| J | 152 | 8.79 | Translation |
| A | 1 | 0.06 | RNA processing and modification |
| K | 65 | 3.76 | Transcription |
| L | 198 | 11.45 | Replication, recombination and repair |
| B | - | - | Chromatin structure and dynamics |
| D | 18 | 1.04 | Cell cycle control, mitosis and meiosis |
| Y | - | - | Nuclear structure |
| V | 31 | 1.79 | Defense mechanisms |
| T | 24 | 1.39 | Signal transduction mechanisms |
| M | 112 | 6.47 | Cell wall/membrane biogenesis |
| N | 19 | 1.1 | Cell motility |
| Z | 1 | 0.06 | Cytoskeleton |
| W | - | - | Extracellular structures |
| U | 44 | 2.54 | Intracellular trafficking and secretion |
| O | 66 | 3.82 | Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones |
| C | 107 | 6.18 | Energy production and conversion |
| G | 118 | 6.82 | Carbohydrate transport and metabolism |
| E | 158 | 9.13 | Amino acid transport and metabolism |
| F | 65 | 3.76 | Nucleotide transport and metabolism |
| H | 96 | 5.55 | Coenzyme transport and metabolism |
| I | 64 | 3.7 | Lipid transport and metabolism |
| P | 71 | 4.1 | Inorganic ion transport and metabolism |
| Q | 37 | 2.14 | Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism |
| R | 172 | 9.94 | General function prediction only |
| S | 111 | 6.42 | Function unknown |
| - | 565 | 26.29 | Not in COGs |
a) The total is based on the total number of protein coding genes in the annotated genome.