Table 5.

The distribution per functional class of 2859 proteins unique to MTB (PUM) and that of 875 with pseudogenes in MLP (PPM).

Functional class	Number of PUM	Number of PPM
Cell wall and cell processes	368	139
Intermediary metabolism and respiration	476	229
Information pathways	72	36
Insertion seqs and phages	77	12
Lipid metabolism	148	83
Virulence, detoxification, adaptation	133	20
Regulatory proteins	132	57
Unknown	1311	291
pe/ppe	142	8
Total	2859	875