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Table 2 FunCat classification of A. niger genes responsive to the treatment with caspofungin (CA), aureobasidin A (AbaA), FK506 and fenpropimorph (FP)

From: The capacity of Aspergillus niger to sense and respond to cell wall stress requires at least three transcription factors: RlmA, MsnA and CrzA

Functional category AbaA FK506 CA a FP a
Sum of differentially expressed genes 236 96 141 24
Number of up-regulated genes 179 49 139 22
Number of down-regulated genes 57 47 2 2
Metabolism 42 11 26 16
Energy 2 2 2 -
Cell cycle and DNA processing 6 - - -
Transcription 14 3 3 -
Protein synthesis 4 - 1 -
Protein fate 10 7 23 1
Protein with binding function or cofactor requirement 3 1 - -
Cellular transport, transport facilitation and transport routes 16 8 13 1
Cellular communication/signal transduction mechanism 5 1 4 1
Cell rescue, defense and virulence 3 3 4 -
Interaction with the environment 1 6 - -
Cell fate 3 - - -
Biogenesis of cellular components 4 - 2 -
Unclassified proteins 123 54 63 5
  1. An annotated list of all genes, including fold change, p- and q-value and classification can be found in Additional file 2. a: microarray data from [14].