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. 2016 Feb 10;11:34–42. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.02.002

Table 5.

Number of genes associated with 25 general COGs functional categories

Code Value % of totala Description
J 152 5.31 Translation
A 0 0 RNA processing and modification
K 177 6.18 Transcription
L 115 4.02 Replication, recombination and repair
B 0 0 Chromatin structure and dynamics
D 23 0.8 Cell cycle control, mitosis and meiosis
Y 0 0 Nuclear structure
V 71 2.48 Defense mechanisms
T 56 1.96 Signal transduction mechanisms
M 95 3.32 Cell wall/membrane biogenesis
N 3 0.10 Cell motility
Z 0 0 Cytoskeleton
W 0 0 Extracellular structures
U 22 0.77 Intracellular trafficking and secretion
O 59 2.06 Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones
C 98 3.43 Energy production and conversion
G 202 7.06 Carbohydrate transport and metabolism
E 227 7.93 Amino acid transport and metabolism
F 62 2.16 Nucleotide transport and metabolism
H 67 2.34 Coenzyme transport and metabolism
I 44 1.53 Lipid transport and metabolism
P 104 3.64 Inorganic ion transport and metabolism
Q 28 0.98 Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism
R 237 8.28 General function prediction only
S 111 3.88 Function unknown
1098 38.38 Not in COGs

COGs, Clusters of Orthologous Groups database.

a

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