Table 3 KEGG pathways of DEGs in different comparisons

Metabolic pathways

331

242

372

284

Carbon metabolism

51

30

10

8

50

36

Fatty acid metabolism

26

17

26

18

Glycine, serine and threonine metabolism

24

17

5

30

20

Citrate cycle (TCA cycle)

22

11

48

18

Biosynthesis of amino acids

37

22

9

43

24

Glyoxylate and dicarboxylate metabolism

15

16

11

Glycolysis/Gluconeogenesis

26

18

Biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids

11

9

9

Steroid biosynthesis

10

13

13

Terpenoid backbone biosynthesis

11

11

4

12

Selenocompound metabolism

8

9

9

8

2-Oxocarboxylic acid metabolism

10

13

Fructose and mannose metabolism

18

Cysteine and methionine metabolism

16

13

6

23

Amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism

21

21

N-Glycan biosynthesis

17

17

Glycerophospholipid metabolism

23

26

Arginine and proline metabolism

18

30

21

Starch and sucrose metabolism

13

14

Pyruvate metabolism

13

22

14

Pentose phosphate pathway

10

One carbon pool by folate

9

7

11

7

Porphyrin and chlorophyll metabolism

7

12

Pyrimidine metabolism

9

47

Propanoate metabolism

19

Phenylalanine metabolism

7

Ubiquinone and other terpenoid-quinone biosynthesis

5

Valine, leucine and isoleucine degradation

22

Protein processing in endoplasmic reticulum

53

41

67

56

DNA replication

20

6

31

13

Proteasome

22

19

22

Aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis

20

7

7

22

Ribosome biogenesis in eukaryotes

12

7

36

RNA transport

68

Mismatch repair

16

Spliceosome

55

Protein export

14

Nucleotide excision repair

23

Homologous recombination

15

Base excision repair

16

ECM-receptor interaction

33

36

Cell cycle

47

58

33

Peroxisome

23