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Table 1 Pathways enriched in transcripts displaying large (>fivefold) differences in relative expression between mouse cecal wall and cecal flush samples

From: Metatranscriptomic analysis of diverse microbial communities reveals core metabolic pathways and microbiome-specific functionality

  

Fold change in expression

Differentially expressed genes

Matched ECs/total ECs in pathway

  

Genes up-regulated in cecal wall

Genes up-regulated in cecal flush

Pathway

p value

5–10

10–20

>20

5–10

10–20

>20

Glycolysis/gluconeogenesis

9.35E-07

14

5

3

5

4

1

32

11/45

Methane metabolism

6.44E-05

10

5

3

4

5

2

29

11/68

Carbon fixation in photosynthetic organisms

1.00E-04

8

1

2

4

0

0

15

5/25

One carbon pool by folate

2.88E-04

4

3

0

1

2

0

10

6/24

Starch and sucrose metabolism

4.59E-04

5

4

2

3

3

0

17

10/71

Alanine, aspartate and glutamate metabolism

1.43E-03

9

1

0

0

1

0

11

7/43

Citrate cycle (TCA cycle)

1.52E-03

4

0

2

2

1

0

9

5/22

Pyruvate metabolism

3.08E-03

7

0

2

1

1

1

12

8/62

Amino sugar and nucleotide sugar metabolism

6.63E-03

5

3

1

1

3

2

15

9/85

Oxidative phosphorylation

1.10E-02

2

3

1

0

3

0

9

3/12

Purine metabolism

3.08E-03

10

0

0

2

0

2

14

9/100

Propanoate metabolism

3.37E-02

3

0

0

0

1

1

5

5/45

Valine, leucine and isoleucine biosynthesis

3.40E-02

1

1

0

0

1

2

5

3/18

Aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis

3.85E-02

2

0

0

1

0

3

6

4/32

Histidine metabolism

4.25E-02

1

3

0

1

0

0

5

4/33

Drug metabolism—other enzymes

4.49E-02

3

0

0

0

0

0

3

3/20

Other glycan degradation

4.88E-02

1

1

0

0

0

0

2

2/9