Asamizu E, Nakamura Y, Sato S, Fukuzawa H, Tabata S
A Large Scale Structural Analysis of cDNAs in a Unicellular Green Alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. I. Generation of 3433 Non-redundant Expressed Sequence Tags
DNA Research, 6, 369-373 (1999)Figures and Tables
Table 1 The result of similarity search against the public non-redundant protein database.
Similarity Number of clones Number of groups Genes from C. reinhardtii 1622 140 Genes from other organisms 6116 677 No similarity 3848 2628 Total 11586 3445
Table 2 Classification of 817 genes matched with non-redundant EST groups into 16 functional categories.
Functional categories Number of the
non-redundant
EST groupsTranslation 179 Photosynthesis and respiration 85 Energy metabolism 65 Transport and binding proteins 52 Amino acid biosynthesis 48 Regulatory functions 46 Transcription 40 Cellular processes 35 Biosynthesis of cofactors, prosthetic groups and carries 23 Fatty acid, phospholipid and sterol metabolism 23 Central intermediary metabolism 20 Cell envelope 15 Purines, pyrimidines, nucleosides and nucleotides 11 DNA replication, restriction, modification, recombination and repair 6 Other categories 38 Hypothetical 131 Total 817
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Kazusa DNA Research Institute
Department of Plant Gene Research