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. 2015 Sep 16;8:51–60. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2015.09.008

Table 4.

Number of genes associated with 25 general COGs functional categories

Code Value % of totala Description
J 163 3.97 Translation
A 0 0 RNA processing and modification
K 265 5.34 Transcription
L 235 4.62 Replication, recombination, repair
B 1 0.02 Chromatin structure and dynamics
D 40 0.92 Cell cycle control, mitosis, meiosis
Y 0 0 Nuclear structure
V 65 1.46 Defense mechanisms
T 197 3.57 Signal transduction mechanisms
M 184 3.60 Cell wall/membrane biogenesis
N 60 1.24 Cell motility
Z 0 0 Cytoskeleton
W 0 0 Extracellular structures
U 46 0.97 Intracellular trafficking and secretion
O 122 2.73 Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones
C 211 4079 Energy production and conversion
G 183 3.85 Carbohydrate transport and metabolism
E 397 9.14 Amino acid transport and metabolism
F 91 2.09 Nucleotide transport and metabolism
H 107 2.46 Coenzyme transport and metabolism
I 133 3.15 Lipid transport and metabolism
P 218 4.87 Inorganic ion transport and metabolism
Q 81 1.79 Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport, catabolism
R 428 9.41 General function prediction only
S 291 6.41 Function unknown
3518 33.47 Not in COGs

COGs, Clusters of Orthologous Groups.

a

Total is based on total number of protein coding genes in annotated genome.