Table 1

GO terms for mRNA transcripts preferentially excluded from polysomes at 0-2 hours(1,404 genes)

Term
GO
No. of genes in D. melanogaster database
No. of genes in the selected group
p value

Biological process (918 genes*)




     Biosynthesis
GO0009058
996
189
2.47E-16
     Primary metabolism
GO0044238
5,032
638
3.85E-07
     Macromolecule biosynthesis
GO0009059
579
136
5.55E-22
     Protein biosynthesis
GO0006412
548
130
1.48E-21
     Translation
GO0043037
214
51
4.21E-09
     Amino acid activation
GO0043038
66
22
1.36E-08
     Lipid metabolism
GO0006629
542
82
4.14E-03
     Membrane lipid biosynthesis
GO0046467
33
12
5.46E-06
     Response to endogenous stimulus
GO0009719
150
34
9.39E-06
     Response to external stimulus
GO0009605
714
34
8.83E-09
     Cell communication
GO0007154
1,928
159
1.60E-06
     Cell cycle
GO0007049
520
92
1.90E-06





Molecular function (933 genes*)




     Structural constituent of ribosome
GO0003735
205
70
4.08E-26
     Ligase activity
GO0016874
345
71
1.56E-08
     Receptor activity
GO0004872
666
30
1.31E-08
     Nucleic acid binding
GO0003676
1,988
314
6.86E-14





Cellular component (637 genes*)




     Cytoplasm
GO0005737
1,695
304
1.60E-23
     Ribosomes
GO0005840
206
71
5.53E-26
     Cytosolic large ribosomal subunit
GO0005842
56
30
3.18E-23
     Cytosolic small ribosomal subunint
GO0005843
48
21
1.97E-12

*Number of the probe sets in the selected group with an available annotation as biological process, molecular function or cellular component.

Qin et al. Genome Biology 2007 8:R63   doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-4-r63