Table 2 Number of genes associated with general COG functional categories in three Desulfofaba genomes

Amino acid transport and metabolism

175

6.03

413

7.97

333

9.84

Carbohydrate transport and metabolism

116

4

179

3.46

117

3.46

Cell cycle control, cell division, chromosome partitioning

39

1.34

54

1.04

31

0.92

Cell motility

112

3.86

217

4.19

153

4.52

Cell wall/membrane/envelope biogenesis

186

6.41

282

5.44

226

6.68

Chromatin structure and dynamics

2

0.07

2

0.04

1

0.03

Coenzyme transport and metabolism

162

5.58

228

4.4

178

5.26

Cytoskeleton

1

0.03

2

0.04

NA

NA

Defense mechanisms

67

2.31

100

1.93

86

2.54

Energy production and conversion

212

7.3

419

8.09

264

7.8

Extracellular structures

43

1.48

47

0.91

41

1.21

Function unknown

142

4.89

213

4.11

129

3.81

General function prediction only

257

8.85

580

11.2

284

8.39

Inorganic ion transport and metabolism

117

4.03

263

5.08

218

6.44

Intracellular trafficking, secretion, and vesicular transport

68

2.34

86

1.66

58

1.71

Lipid transport and metabolism

92

3.17

177

3.42

130

3.84

Mobilome: prophages, transposons

63

2.17

96

1.85

23

0.68

Nucleotide transport and metabolism

79

2.72

93

1.8

75

2.22

Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, chaperones

151

5.2

211

4.07

142

4.2

RNA processing and modification

1

0.03

NA

NA

NA

NA

Replication, recombination and repair

127

4.37

140

2.7

97

2.87

Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport and catabolism

43

1.48

123

2.37

81

2.39

Signal transduction mechanisms

271

9.34

662

12.78

339

10.02

Transcription

144

4.96

333

6.43

157

4.64

Translation, ribosomal structure and biogenesis

233

8.03

260

5.02

221

6.53

Not in COG

994

28.38

1969

31.4

2449

44.85