Table 4.
Number of genes associated with the 25 general COG functional categories
| Code | Value | % of totala | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| J | 175 | 5.59 | Translation |
| A | 1 | 0.03 | RNA processing and modification |
| K | 153 | 4.89 | Transcription |
| L | 141 | 4.50 | Replication, recombination and repair |
| B | 2 | 0.06 | Chromatin structure and dynamics |
| D | 34 | 1.09 | Cell cycle control, mitosis and meiosis |
| Y | 0 | 0.00 | Nuclear structure |
| V | 56 | 1.79 | Defense mechanisms |
| T | 216 | 6.90 | Signal transduction mechanisms |
| M | 156 | 4.98 | Cell wall/membrane biogenesis |
| N | 87 | 2.78 | Cell motility |
| Z | 0 | 0.00 | Cytoskeleton |
| W | 0 | 0.00 | Extracellular structures |
| U | 77 | 2.46 | Intracellular trafficking and secretion |
| O | 116 | 3.70 | Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones |
| C | 157 | 5.01 | Energy production and conversion |
| G | 90 | 2.87 | Carbohydrate transport and metabolism |
| E | 207 | 6.61 | Amino acid transport and metabolism |
| F | 62 | 1.98 | Nucleotide transport and metabolism |
| H | 132 | 4.21 | Coenzyme transport and metabolism |
| I | 85 | 2.71 | Lipid transport and metabolism |
| P | 148 | 4.73 | Inorganic ion transport and metabolism |
| Q | 41 | 1.31 | Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism |
| R | 244 | 7.79 | General function prediction only |
| S | 202 | 6.45 | Function unknown |
| - | 885 | 28.26 | Not in COGs |
aThe total is based on the total number of protein coding genes in the annotated genome