The use of global transcriptional analysis to reveal the biological and cellular events involved in distinct development phases of Trichophyton rubrum conidial germination

Table 1 Putative predicated function and biological processes of selected genes

GO term*	Gene number	Clusters
Biological process	719	I	II	II	IV	V
Metabolism	401	117	95	137	35	17
Biosynthesis	173	26	6	13	38	90
Catabolism	30	9	0	8	8	5
Amino	36	17	4	4	9	2
Lipid	20	4	0	5	8	3
Energy pathways	28	7	0	1	15	5
Carbohydr.	33	12	0	5	9	7
Protein biosynthesis	149	30	5	9	17	88
Nucleic acid	97	38	4	3	32	20
Transcription	29	15	1	1	5	7
Response to stimulus	70	30	7	5	13	15
Regulation of biological process	34	18	2	0	6	7
Cell communication	30	13	0	4	4	9
Development	15	12	1	0	2	0
Reproduction	12	4	0	4	2	2
Transport	73	21	1	6	25	20
Cell organization and biogenesis	28	12	0	3	8	10
Cell adhesion	11	3	0	5	2	1
Biological process unknown	113

* ESTs of the selected genes were matched to the sequences in the Gene Ontology. Total 780 out of 1561 genes were assigned to different biological process, and 666 and 960 out of 1561 genes were assigned to GO terms: "Cell Components" and "Molecular Function" respectively. Individual gene can have multiple Gene Ontology assignments. About 454 genes have no hints in the Gene Ontology. The detailed results are provided in the Additional file 2 and 6.

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