Analyses of expressed sequence tags from the maize foliar pathogen Cercospora zeae-maydis identify novel genes expressed during vegetative, infectious, and reproductive growth

Table 3 Consensus sequences highly enriched during either sporulation or vegetative growth

Cluster ID_consensus sequence	BLAST hit (gi #)¹	E value	Annotation²	No. of ESTs in libraries
				Sporulation	Vegetative
Enriched during sporulation
35_8	154277410	6e-56	Prohibitin	387	3
4016_1	n/a	n/a	No hits found	325	1
35_7	73808014	6e-18	Exo-beta-1,3-glucanase	529	40
1101_1	n/a	n/a	No hits found	190	2
295_2	n/a	n/a	No hits found	211	6
2170_1	n/a	n/a	No hits found	133	0
11_11	39974277	4e-11	Conserved hypothetical protein	169	3
134_1	n/a	n/a	No hits found	67	0
2189_1	25091421	8e-13	Hydrophobin	63	0
2064_1	111064426	1e-20	Conserved hypothetical protein	85	2
13_1	156052246	3e-39	Conserved hypothetical protein	46	0
11_12	4572458	4e-34	Formate dehydrogenase	68	2
1356_1	46102748	9e-23	Conserved hypothetical protein	75	3
2201_1	n/a	n/a	No hits found	39	0
159_1	119173169	4e-85	Aquaglyceroporin	37	0
295_3	336895	6e-15	ATP synthase protein 9	50	2
2139_2	154281566	8e-56	Ribosomal protein L30	26	0
2156_1	145238173	9e-17	ATP synthase subunit Atp18	26	0
2324_1	46108711	1e-40	60S ribosomal protein L36	24	0
2255_1	154323144	3e-129	Enoyl-CoA hydratase	24	0
2134_1	5831429	3e-26	60S ribosomal protein L29	24	0
2277_1	5829297	6e-66	Blue light induced gene-3	23	0
2303_1	5828212	1e-49	Cytochrome c oxidase	22	0
294_1	145232507	2e-12	Conserved hypothetical protein	53	3
2154_1	n/a	n/a	No hits found	20	0
2301_1	84573599	9e-15	Conserved hypothetical protein	20	0
Enriched during vegetative growth
540_1	71000414	0.0	Glutaminase	0	39
35_1	n/a	n/a	No hits found	0	26
1302_1	n/a	n/a	No hits found	0	23
35_3	n/a	n/a	No hits found	0	21

¹ gi = GenBank gene index number of most similar sequence obtained by tBLASTx.
² Projected annotation based on known function of all similar sequences obtained by tBLASTx with a threshold of 1e-5.

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