Table 3.

Significant GO terms associated to the Cd metal stress conditions

S. No.	GO terms	Proteins	Genes	Transcription factors (TFs)	Reference
1.	Sulphur compound metabolism: transsulphuration pathway and methyl cycle		CYS3, SAM2, MET2, MET3, MET5, MET6, MET14, MET16, MET17	Met4, Met32, Met28	Hosiner et al. 2014
2.	Protein folding and proteasomal degradation/autophagy	Kar2, Atg8, Ape1, Pca1	PDI1, ERO1, FKB2, MCD1, MPD1, JEM1, KAR2, EUG1, MPD1, LHS1, ATG17	Hac1, Ire1, Rpn4	Gardarin et al. 2010; Muthukumar and Nachiappan 2013; Hosiner et al. 2014; Smith et al. 2016
3.	Lipid and fatty acid metabolism		CHO2, OPI3, CPT1, EKI1, CKI1, ARE1, ARE2, DGA1, LRO1, ACC1, FAS1, OLE1		Fang et al. 2016; Rajakumar and Nachiappan 2017