Table 1

Gene Ontology Classification of Imiquimod-Induced Genes in AK Lesions

Ontology
Genes in the Data1
Annotated Genes2
P-value3
Increased Expression
Decreased Expression
Description of Processes and Specific Genes

Total
436
17479

369
67

Response to stimuli
137
2475
2.13E-19
125
12
defense response, response to external biotic stimuli including, pest and pathogens, antimicrobial, anti-fungal, anti-viral response
Defense response
105
1174
1.54E-40
102
3
immune response, inflammatory response
Immune response
106
1020
3.05E-40
104
2
cellular defense response, humoral defense response, antigen binding, pattern binding, cytokine synthesis, chemokine synthesis, antigen presentation processing, inflammatory response
Response to stress
68
1337
1.77E-12
63
5
response to pest and pathogen, inflammatory response, response to virus, response to wounding
Inflammatory response
25
244
4.35E-11
25
0
defensive reaction (by vertebrate tissue) to infection or injury
Response to wounding
39
395
3.72E-16
39
0
defensive reaction (by vertebrate tissue) to physical injury
Signal transduction
123
3547
4.70E-06
95
17
cytokine signaling, death receptor signaling, G-protein coupled receptor signaling, intigrin binding, MHC protein binding
Receptor activity
72
1914
1.80E-07
62
10
chemokine receptors, pattern recognition receptors, immunoglobulin receptors, complement receptors, MHC I\MHCII receptors, scavenger receptors, Hematopoietin/interferon class (D200) receptors
Antigen binding
8
91
2.66E-03
8
0
SCF1, IGLV2-14, LAG3, LILRA1, SLAMF1, TRA@, TRGC2, TAP2
Carbohydrate binding
16
326
1.18E-03
14
2
CCL8, CD69, CLEC4A, FCN1, FGFR2, GALNT7, HMMR, KLRC1/KLRC2, KLRF1, LGALS2, LGALS9, POSTN, PTN, SELL, SELPLG, SN
Pattern binding
10
159
4.58E-02
8
2
CCL8, CD14, FGFR2, HMMR, POSTN, PTN, TLR2, TLR7, TLR8, TLR4
Cytokine receptors
9
99
1.97E-04
9
0
CCR5, CCR1, CD74, CSF2RB, CXCR4, IL10RA, IL1RL1, IL21R, TNFRSF1B
Cytokines
12
257
1.11E-04
11
1
CCL3, CCL5, CCL8, CXCL5, CXCL10, CXCL11, CXCL12, CXCL16, TNFSF10, ECGF1, PTN, SLURP1
Immunoglobulin binding
4
25
1.56E-03
4
0
FCER1A, FCER1G, FCGR3B, 214511_x_at
Cystein type endopeptidase
9
169
8.21E-03
9
0
CASP1, CASP8, CTSB, CTSL, CTSC, STSS, LGMN, TNFAIP3, USP18

1Number of genes in the data for which annotation was found in the Gene Ontology database.

2Total number of gene with annotation in the Gene Ontology database.

3P-value for representation of gene ontology category in the data.

Torres et al. Journal of Translational Medicine 2007 5:7   doi:10.1186/1479-5876-5-7