Table 3

The 50 GO terms most expanded in the Mtb clade relative to the non-pathogenic, soil-dwelling Mycobacteria

GO descriptor

GO term ID

p-valuea

inter-to-intra centroid difference


4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-en-1-yl diphosphate red. activity

GO_0051745

4.80E-08

7.20E+00


dTMP biosynthetic process

GO_0006231

7.30E-07

4.40E+00


response to cAMP

GO_0051591

1.40E-06

1.20E+01


succinate dehydrogenase (ubiquinone) activity

GO_0008177

1.70E-06

5.10E+00


iron ion transport

GO_0006826

2.70E-06

4.70E+00


magnesium ion binding

GO_0000287

2.80E-06

1.70E+00


c fatty-acyl-CoA synthase activity

GO_0004321

5.10E-06

6.50E+00


c acyltransferase activity

GO_0008415

7.60E-06

3.60E+00


transferase activity, transferring alkyl or aryl (other than methyl) groups

GO_0016765

1.30E-05

2.60E+00


c tricarboxylic acid cycle

GO_0006099

1.30E-05

3.40E+00


d Mo-molybdopterin cofactor biosynthetic process

GO_0006777

1.40E-05

6.30E+00


integral to membrane

GO_0016021

2.00E-05

2.00E+00


acid phosphatase activity

GO_0003993

2.50E-05

3.20E+00


phosphatase activity

GO_0016791

3.20E-05

4.10E+00


erythronolide synthase activity

GO_0047879

4.20E-05

8.20E+00


d 4-alpha-hydroxytetrahydrobiopterin dehydratase activity

GO_0008124

6.80E-05

6.20E+00


c lipid metabolic process

GO_0006629

6.80E-05

4.70E+00


bacteriochlorophyll biosynthetic process

GO_0030494

7.00E-05

1.30E+00


plasma membrane

GO_0005886

7.10E-05

2.70E+00


d tetrahydrobiopterin biosynthetic process

GO_0006729

1.10E-04

8.80E+00


c lipid biosynthetic process

GO_0008610

1.20E-04

3.50E+00


phosphatidylcholine metabolic process

GO_0046470

1.60E-04

9.50E+00


c geranyltranstransferase activity

GO_0004337

1.60E-04

6.80E+00


cytoplasm

GO_0005737

1.90E-04

1.40E+00


protein transport

GO_0015031

1.90E-04

1.70E+00


guanosine tetraphosphate metabolic process

GO_0015969

2.20E-04

5.00E+00


glyoxylate cycle

GO_0006097

2.20E-04

4.30E+00


phosphoglycolate phosphatase activity

GO_0008967

2.80E-04

4.30E+00


terpenoid biosynthetic process

GO_0016114

3.90E-04

2.80E+00


sulfur metabolic process

GO_0006790

4.10E-04

5.30E+00


4 iron, 4 sulfur cluster binding

GO_0051539

5.00E-04

2.90E+00


succinate dehydrogenase activity

GO_0000104

5.70E-04

4.60E+00


b mycocerosate synthase activity

GO_0050111

5.80E-04

4.10E+00


c phospholipid biosynthetic process

GO_0008654

6.10E-04

2.30E+00


nucleoside metabolic process

GO_0009116

6.30E-04

3.60E+00


c phosphopantetheine binding

GO_0031177

8.20E-04

3.00E+00


adenylate cyclase activity

GO_0004016

8.30E-04

5.50E+00


D-arabinono-1,4-lactone oxidase activity

GO_0003885

9.70E-04

8.40E+00


anaerobic respiration

GO_0009061

9.90E-04

1.10E+01


nodulation

GO_0009877

1.10E-03

7.10E+00


c prenyltransferase activity

GO_0004659

1.10E-03

4.20E+00


c lysophospholipase activity

GO_0004622

1.30E-03

8.50E+00


c acetyl-CoA carboxylase activity

GO_0003989

1.30E-03

2.40E+00


histidinol-phosphatase activity

GO_0004401

2.10E-03

6.50E+00


pyridine nucleotide biosynthetic process

GO_0019363

2.30E-03

5.00E+00


NAD biosynthetic process

GO_0009435

3.30E-03

1.30E+00


lactate fermentation to propionate and acetate

GO_0019652

3.40E-03

3.40E+00


alkylglycerone-phosphate synthase activity

GO_0008609

3.40E-03

7.10E+00


b cyclopropane-fatty-acyl-phospholipid synthase activity

GO_0008825

4.00E-03

5.90E+00


methylcrotonoyl-CoA carboxylase activity

GO_0004485

4.40E-03

3.00E+00


aBonferroni-corrected p-value calculated from T-test

b pathogenicity or survival within the host

c Lipid metabolism

d Cofactor biosynthesis

e unknown function

McGuire et al. BMC Genomics 2012 13:120   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-120

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