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Table 4 Enriched GO biological processes for differentially expressed genes

From: Comparative toxicogenomic responses of mercuric and methyl-mercury

Mercurial

Toxicity

Change in expression

Biological process (p-value)

MeHgCl

Sub-toxic

up-regulated

Metabolic process (0.00097)

Low-toxic

up-regulated

Lipid glycosylation (4.6E-05)

Response to heat (0.00084)

Carbohydrate metabolic process (0.0084)

 

Oxidation reduction (0.04)

 

down-regulated

Regulation of transcription (0.032)

High-toxic

up-regulated

Post-translational protein modification (3.4E-67)

Vitelline membrane formation (8.5E-07)

Lipid glycosylation (1.1E-05)

Response to heat (0.0022)

 

Enterobactin biosynthetic process (0.044)

down-regulated

Cell adhesion (9.5E-06)

Body morphogenesis (1.8E-05)

Cell-matrix adhesion (4.7E-05)

Chitin catabolic process (0.00021)

Regulation of transcription (0.0012)

Cell wall macromolecule catabolic process (0.025)

Defense response (0.0035)

Tail morphogenesis (0.0044)

Proteolysis (0.0046)

Cilium morphogenesis (0.012)

Neuron recognition (0.021)

Lipid transport (0.021)

Ubiquitin-dependent catabolic process (0.032)

Response to oxidative stress (0.035)

Protein-DNA complex assembly (0.042)

 

Regulation of cell migration (0.046)

HgCl2

Low-toxic

up-regulated

Proteolysis (7.4E-06)

High-toxic

up-regulated

Lipid glycosylation (2.5E-14)

Transmembrane transport (1.1E-06)

Carbohydrate metabolic process (2.1E-06)

Extracellular matrix organization (1.3E-05)

 

Oxidation reduction (0.0084)

 

down-regulated

Body morphogenesis (6.8E-10)

Locomotion (0.018)

Morphogenesis of an epithelium (0.024)

  

Regulation of multicellular organism growth (0.036)