Table 4

GO terms for mRNA transcipts preferentially associated with polysomes at 4-6 hours (536 genes)

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

Biological process (319 genes*)




     Nucleobase, nucleoside, nucleotide and nucleic acid metabolism
GO0006139
2,008
138
3.96E-15
     RNA metabolism
GO0016070
394
46
4.27E-16
     RNA processing
GO0006396
271
28
3.33E-08
     Transcription initiation from pol II promoter
GO0006367
92
13
4.14E-07





Cellular component (216 genes*)




     Nucleus
GO0005634
1,793
114
5.77E-11
     DNA-directed RNA polymerase II, holoenzyme
GO0016591
91
17
2.01E-13
     Spliceosome complexes
GO0005681
111
16
7.56E-09
     Small nuclear ribonucleoprotein complex
GO0030532
63
13
5.12E-12
     Proteasome regulatory particle
GO0005838
24
11
1.90E-26

*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