Table 3

Comparison of GO profiling among different fungal species



% Representation to total in main category



Gene Ontology
Categories and subcategories
S. cerevisiae
S. pombe
N. crassa
P. chrysos-porium
A. niger
A. nidulans
M. grisea

Biological process
metabolism
71.4%
72.7%
76.0%
74.6%
75.6%
71.4%
75.3%

cellular physiological process
50.3%
46.7%
34.2%
32.6%
30.2%
34.8%
36.9%

cell growth and/or maintenance
48.5%
45.2%
31.9%
31.6%
29.4%
33.8%
36.2%

cell communication
4.8%
11.05%
12.8%
4.7%
3.8%
3.9%
4.3%

Cellular component
cell
99.3%
99.74%
96.8%
95.5%
98.1%
97.8%
96.5%

unlocalized
1.0%
0.26%
1.9%
2.7%
0.8%
0.9%
0.8%

extracellular
0.3%
0.0%
0.7%
2.2%
1.3%
1.3%
2.3%

Molecular function
catalytic activity
52.1%
76.46%
54.9%
65.4%
62.6%
60.4%
59.9%

binding
46.6%
19.47%
45.7%
43.0%
41.8%
41.5%
49.5%

transporter activity
14.8%
1.50%
11.0%
10.6%
15.5%
12.2%
10.1%

transcription regulator activity
6.6%
4.28%
4.9%
3.3%
4.6%
6.6%
4.1%

structural molecule activity
5.3%
0.0%
2.9%
1.9%
2.1%
1.7%
2.2%

enzyme regulator activity
2.9%
0.86%
1.3%
1.1%
0.7%
0.7%
0.9%

chaperone activity
2.2%
2.50%
1.5%
1.1%
1.1%
0.8%
1.0%

signal transducer activity
1.9%
0.0%
1.8%
1.9%
1.5%
1.1%
1.2%

translation regulator activity
1.4%
0.0%
1.2%
1.1%
1.8%
0.8%
0.8%

Semova et al. BMC Microbiology 2006 6:7   doi:10.1186/1471-2180-6-7