Table 4. Number of genes associated with the 25 general COG functional categories.
| Code | Value | %agea | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| J | 165 | 3.85 | Translation |
| A | 3 | 0.07 | RNA processing and modification |
| K | 283 | 6.60 | Transcription |
| L | 129 | 3.01 | Replication, recombination and repair |
| B | 3 | 0.07 | Chromatin structure and dynamics |
| D | 47 | 1.10 | Cell cycle control, mitosis and meiosis |
| Y | 0 | 0.00 | Nuclear structure |
| V | 57 | 1.33 | Defense mechanisms |
| T | 162 | 3.78 | Signal transduction mechanisms |
| M | 176 | 4.10 | Cell wall/membrane biogenesis |
| N | 9 | 0.21 | Cell motility |
| Z | 8 | 0.19 | Cytoskeleton |
| W | 0 | 0.00 | Extracellular structures |
| U | 39 | 0.91 | Intracellular trafficking and secretion |
| O | 104 | 2.42 | Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones |
| C | 271 | 6.32 | Energy production and conversion |
| G | 203 | 4.73 | Carbohydrate transport and metabolism |
| E | 295 | 6.87 | Amino acid transport and metabolism |
| F | 80 | 1.86 | Nucleotide transport and metabolism |
| H | 119 | 2.77 | Coenzyme transport and metabolism |
| I | 208 | 4.85 | Lipid transport and metabolism |
| P | 205 | 4.78 | Inorganic ion transport and metabolism |
| Q | 183 | 4.26 | Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism |
| R | 613 | 14.29 | General function prediction only |
| S | 284 | 6.62 | Function unknown |
| - | 1105 | 25.75 | Not in COGs |
a) The total is based on the total number of protein coding genes in the annotated genome.