Table 4. Number of genes associated with the 25 general COG functional categories.
| Code | Value | %agea | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| J | 148 | 4.88 | Translation |
| A | 0 | 0.00 | RNA processing and modification |
| K | 131 | 4.32 | Transcription |
| L | 153 | 5.04 | Replication, recombination and repair |
| B | 1 | 0.03 | Chromatin structure and dynamics |
| D | 27 | 0.89 | Cell cycle control, mitosis and meiosis |
| Y | 0 | 0.00 | Nuclear structure |
| V | 17 | 0.56 | Defense mechanisms |
| T | 93 | 3.06 | Signal transduction mechanisms |
| M | 85 | 2.80 | Cell wall/membrane biogenesis |
| N | 52 | 1.71 | Cell motility |
| Z | 0 | 0.00 | Cytoskeleton |
| W | 0 | 0.00 | Extracellular structures |
| U | 34 | 1.12 | Intracellular trafficking and secretion |
| O | 91 | 2.99 | Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones |
| C | 137 | 4.51 | Energy production and conversion |
| G | 144 | 4.74 | Carbohydrate transport and metabolism |
| E | 200 | 6.59 | Amino acid transport and metabolism |
| F | 63 | 2.08 | Nucleotide transport and metabolism |
| H | 103 | 3.39 | Coenzyme transport and metabolism |
| I | 79 | 2.60 | Lipid transport and metabolism |
| P | 122 | 4.02 | Inorganic ion transport and metabolism |
| Q | 32 | 1.05 | Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism |
| R | 231 | 7.61 | General function prediction only |
| S | 169 | 5.57 | Function unknown |
| - | 1,234 | 40.66 | Not in COGs |
a) The total is based on the total number of protein coding genes in the annotated genome.