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

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