Table 1

Major functional categories of P. striiformis ESTs from the germinated urediniospore library.

Functional category
No. of ESTa

Cell division and chromosome structure
46
Cell signal and communication
75
Cell structure and growth

     Cytoskeletal
13
     growth sporulation
409
Metabolism

     Amino Acid
49
     TCA cycle/Oxidative Phosphorylation/Electron Transport
70
     Lipid/Fatty Acid
16
     Carbon Metabolism
70
     Plant Cell Degradation
79
     Transport
46
     Other metabolism
15
Cell/Organism defense

     Detoxification
72
     DNA repair
2
     Stress response
33
Protein biosynthesis

     ribosomal protein
861
     translation factors
5
     tRNA synthesis
3
     protein turnover
13
     post-translation modification/trafficking
24
RNA synthesis

     RNA polymerases
3
     transcription regulation
13
     RNA processing
42
Transposon
2
Unclassified
2837

a The original EST number and best hit were listed in Additional file 4 [see Additional file 4].

Zhang et al. BMC Genomics 2008 9:203   doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-203