Figure 6

Abundance and essentiality. The abundance distribution of essential and non-essential proteins is shown: essential proteins are more abundant than non-essential proteins. The medians which represent 50% of all proteins within each group are shown as thick black bars, the one in the essential group is clearly higher (613 copies per cell vs. 432). Additionally in the essential group proteins can be found in higher abundance ranges than non-essential proteins (as can be seen by the difference of the upper whisker and upper hinge). A Mann-Whitney test as well as a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test indicated that the abundance distributions of essential and non-essential proteins are significantly different with p-values 0.0002 and 0.0001 respectively.