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Table 3 Enrichment of functional classes among 278 Nipi genes

From: A quantitative genome-wide RNAi screen in C. elegans for antifungal innate immunity genes

Category/Phenotype upon RNAia

Number over-lapping genes

Total number genes in class

Percentage of MAPK signaling genes in class

Probabilityb

1. Conserved in D. melanogaster c as described in [124]

169

3710

84.8

3.77 × 10−54

2. Stimulate microbial aversion behaviorc [26]

65

374

33.3

1.39 × 10−50

3. Suppress over-expression of gpdh-1p::gfp seen in osm-8 mutantc,d [72]

52

252

24.2

7.87 × 10−44

4. Decrease acdh-1p::gfp expression [73]

35

146

6.1

3.33 × 10−31

5. Induce hsp-6p::gfp (mitochondrial UPR) [66]

30

95

0.0

1.60 × 10−30

6. Protein expression [125]

43

446

9.1

1.18 × 10−21

7. Required for cytoprotective response – four different reporter genesc [49]

21

71

24.2

3.08 × 10−20

8. Required for transgene silencing [57]

50

823

24.2

1.25 × 10−16

10. Alter RAB-11 sub-cellular localization and transport of the apical membrane protein PEPT-1 [79]

34

426

15.2

3.40 × 10−14

11. Synthetic phenotype with lin-35 [126]

27

252

6.1

3.95 × 10−14

12. Required for mitochondrial surveillance and response [74]

14

45

9.1

2.08 × 10−13

13. Regulators of gpdh-1 expressiond [75]

18

123

6.1

2.45 × 10−11

15. Aberrant GFP::PGL-1 phenotypes [76]

20

170

12.1

6.87 × 10−11

16. Suppressors of polyglutamine aggregation [77]

19

173

9.1

9.65 × 10−10

17. Mitochondrial [125]

17

160

0.0

2.35 × 10−8

18. Upregulated after 12 h of dauer recovery [127]

44

1175

12.1

3.31 × 10−7

20. Altered expression in zpf-1 mutant [128]

21

333

3.0

2.24 × 10−6

21. Down regulated in an ogt-1 mutant [129]

30

670

9.1

4.02 × 10−6

22. Altered expression in rde-4 mutant [128]

17

232

6.1

7.17 × 10−6

23. Induce hsp-70p::gfp [130]

9

52

9.1

1.03 × 10−5

24. Genes connected to miRNA function [131, 132]

8

42

9.1

2.79 × 10−5

25. Increase longevity [133]

9

66

3.0

8.78 × 10−5

26. Induced after 24 h of D. coniospora infection (cDNA microarrays) [2]

21

419

12.1

1.12 × 10−4

27. Confer hypoxia-resistance [134]

14

198

9.1

1.98 × 10−4

29. Induce irg-1p::gfp [59]

10

102

0.0

4.37 × 10−4

31. Energy generation [125]

10

104

3.0

5.23 × 10−4

  1. aThe numbers refer to the order of the classes in the complete analysis; some redundant or similar classes have been removed (see Additional file 7: Table S6 for complete data)
  2. bBonferroni-corrected Fischer exact score
  3. cClass significantly enriched in the group of 33 “non-his non-msp MAPK pathway genes”
  4. dClass related to osmotic stress response