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. 2015 Sep 30;31(3):212–218. doi: 10.5423/PPJ.OA.04.2015.0049

Table 3.

Number of genes associated with 25 general COG functional categories

Code XAP XH XCZ Description



Value % of totala Value % of totala Value % of totala
E 178 6.6 176 7.3 99 5.72 Amino acid transport and metabolism
G 162 6.01 127 5.27 86 4.97 Carbohydrate transport and metabolism
D 24 0.89 23 0.95 19 1.1 Cell cycle control, cell division, and chromosome partitioning
N 92 3.41 91 3.77 60 3.47 Cell motility
M 161 5.97 131 5.43 97 5.61 Cell wall, membrane, and envelope biogenesis
B 1 0.04 0 0 1 0.06 Chromatin structure and dynamics
H 110 4.08 85 3.52 54 3.12 Coenzyme transport and metabolism
Z 1 0.04 2 0.08 1 0.06 Cytoskeleton
V 39 1.45 49 2.03 19 1.1 Defense mechanisms
C 147 5.45 150 6.22 105 6.07 Energy production and conversion
S 265 9.83 216 8.96 186 10.75 Function unknown
R 308 11.42 253 10.49 206 11.91 General function prediction only
P 135 5.01 139 5.76 86 4.97 Inorganic ion transport and metabolism
U 118 4.38 111 4.6 63 3.64 Intracellular trafficking, secretion, and vesicular transport
I 110 4.08 98 4.06 68 3.93 Lipid transport and metabolism
F 54 2 52 2.16 36 2.08 Nucleotide transport and metabolism
O 114 4.23 96 3.98 74 4.28 Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones
L 109 4.04 99 4.1 55 3.18 Replication, recombination, and repair
A 1 0.04 1 0.04 1 0.06 RNA processing and modification
Q 60 2.23 68 2.82 30 1.73 Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport, and catabolism
T 175 6.49 117 4.85 128 7.4 Signal transduction mechanisms
K 185 6.86 185 7.67 147 8.5 Transcription
J 147 5.45 143 5.93 109 6.3 Translation, ribosomal structure, and biogenesis
W 0 0 0 0 0 0 Extracellular structures
Y 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nuclear structure
2875 54.38 2312 51.85 6543 80.88 Not in COGs
a)

The total is based on the total number of genes associated with COG categories.