Table 2. Suggested biological function of the differentially expressed genes under starvation.

Biological Function	Overexpressed	Underexpressed
Steroid biosynthetic process		HSD3B2, HSD3B1, CYP21A2
MAPKKK cascade		DUSP6, DUSP10
Signal transduction		PLK2, DUSP6, DUSP10, FREM2, ANGPTL1
Metabolic process	ASCL1	ASS1, CFI, DUSP10, DUSP6, ENC1, PLK2, RARB, HSD3B2, HSD3B1

Differentially expressed genes in normal growth vs starvation conditions were loaded into DAVID v6.5 software to perform biological functional analysis. Analysis was performed on the 14 gene transcripts identified by microarray analysis setting the fold change cut-off at 2.0 with an adjusted p-value < 0.05.