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. 2015 Feb 11;2015:538080. doi: 10.1155/2015/538080

Table 1.

Main genes that were up- or downregulated based on the gene ontology (GO) analysis at week 1 compared with the levels of expression in the control.

Upregulated genes Downregulated genes
GO category Numbers of genes P value GO category Numbers of genes P value
Cellular component
Basement membrane 14 <0.0001 Apical plasma membrane 15 <0.0001
Extracellular matrix 38 <0.0001 Glutamate-cysteine ligase complex 2 <0.0001
Extracellular region 53 <0.0001 Hemoglobin complex 2 <0.0001
Extracellular space 47 <0.0001 Intermediate filament 12 <0.0001
Proteinaceous extracellular matrix 17 0.0001 Keratin filament 8 <0.0001

Biological process
Cartilage morphogenesis 3 <0.0001 Adhesion to symbiont 2 <0.0001
Collagen fibril organization 9 <0.0001 Cellular aldehyde metabolic process 3 <0.0001
DNA replication 13 <0.0001 Cilium movement 4 0.0003
DNA replication initiation 5 <0.0001 Desmosome organization 2 <0.0001
DNA unwinding involved in DNA replication 4 <0.0001 Fucose metabolic process 2 <0.0001
Extracellular fibril organization 3 0.0003 Glutathione metabolic process 9 <0.0001
Extracellular matrix organization 11 0.0003 Male sex differentiation 2 <0.0001
Regulation of cell growth 7 <0.0001 Neutrophil aggregation 2 <0.0001
Oxidation-reduction process 49 <0.0001
Positive regulation of cation channel activity 2 <0.0001
Protein homotetramerization 8 <0.0001
Regulation of cell death 3 0.0003
Response to metal ion 2 <0.0001

Molecular function
Calcium ion binding 42 0.0002 Aldehyde dehydrogenase (NAD) activity 3 <0.0001
DNA helicase activity 6 <0.0001 Aldehyde dehydrogenase [NAD(P)+] activity 2 <0.0001
Extracellular matrix binding 7 <0.0001 Alpha-L-fucosidase activity 2 <0.0001
Extracellular matrix structural constituent 7 <0.0001 Flavin adenine dinucleotide binding 12 <0.0001
Heparin binding 11 <0.0001 Glutamate-cysteine ligase activity 2 <0.0001
Insulin-like growth factor binding 7 <0.0001 Oxidoreductase activity 44 <0.0001
Platelet-derived growth factor binding 5 <0.0001 Oxidoreductase activity, acting on CH-OH group of donors 5 <0.0001
Oxidoreductase activity, acting on paired donors, with incorporation or reduction of molecular oxygen, reduced flavin or flavoprotein as one donor, and incorporation of one atom of oxygen 5 0.0003
Structural molecule activity 16 0.0001
Superoxide dismutase activity 3 0.0003
UDP-N-acetylmuramate dehydrogenase activity 4 <0.0001

The values were compared according to fold change.