The Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria Azospirillum amazonense: Genomic Versatility and Phytohormone Pathway

Table 4

Protein categories encoded by A. amazonense specific and conserved genes identified by in silico subtractive hybridization.

CDS assigned function^*	Specific CDS	Conserved CDS
Transcription	143	11
Signal transduction mechanisms	137	5
Inorganic ion transport and metabolism	111	1
Carbohydrate transport and metabolism	101	4
Cell wall/membrane/envelope biogenesis	94	1
Amino acid transport and metabolism	86	19
Energy production and conversion	49	27
Secondary metabolites biosynthesis, transport, and catabolism	47	3
Cell motility	44	0
Coenzyme transport and metabolism	41	4
Lipid transport and metabolism	41	10
Intracellular trafficking, secretion, and vesicular transport	37	1
Defense mechanisms	34	0
Replication, recombination, and repair	33	3
Posttranslational modification, protein turnover, and chaperones	27	16
Translation, ribosomal structure, and biogenesis	14	27
Nucleotide transport and metabolism	12	12
Cell cycle control, cell division, and chromosome partitioning	4	1
RNA processing and modification	2	0
General function prediction only or function unknown	352	11

Proteins with homology () value less than 0.42 and more than 0.64 were arbitrarily defined as specific and conserved CDS, respectively.
^*CDS assigned function was based on the COGs according to BLAST search.