TABLE 1.
Functional categories of indole-responsive genes
| Functional group | No. of genes |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Upregulated | Downregulated | Total | |
| Amino acid biosynthesis | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Biosynthesis of cofactors, prosthetic groups, and carriers | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Cell envelope | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| Cellular processes | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Conserved, hypothetical, and unknown | 23 | 22 | 45 |
| DNA replication, recombination, and repair | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Metabolism | 21 | 2 | 23 |
| Pathogenesis | 2 | 21 | 23 |
| Purines, pyrimidines, nucleosides, and nucleotides | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Protein fate | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Regulatory functions | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Transport and binding proteins | 12 | 8 | 20 |
| Total | 74 | 69 | 143 |