Journal
PROTEIN SCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages 1970-1979Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1110/ps.10101
Keywords
protein sequence analysis; analyzing entire genomes; helical membrane proteins; coiled-coil proteins; signal peptides; comparative modeling
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [1-P50-GM62413-01, R01 GM063029, P50 GM062413, R01-GM63029-01] Funding Source: Medline
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More than 30 organisms have been sequenced entirely. Here, we applied a variety of simple bioinformatics tools to analyze 29 proteomes for representatives from all three kingdoms: eukaryotes, prokaryotes, and archaebacteria. We confirmed that eukaryotes have relatively more long proteins than prokaryotes and archaes, and that the overall amino acid composition is similar among the three. We predicted that similar to 15%-30% of all proteins contained transmembrane helices. We could not find a correlation between the content of membrane proteins and the complexity of the organism. In particular, we did not find significantly higher percentages of helical membrane proteins in eukaryotes than in prokaryotes or archae. However, we found more proteins with seven transmembrane helices in eukaryotes and more with six and 12 transmembrane helices in prokaryotes. We found twice as many coiled-coil proteins in eukaryotes (10%) as in prokaryotes and archaes (4%-5%), and we predicted similar to 15%-25% of all proteins to be secreted by most eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Every tenth protein had no known homolog in current databases, and 30%-40% of the proteins fell into structural families with > 100 members. A classification by cellular function verified that eukaryotes have a higher proportion of proteins for communication with the environment. Finally, we found at least one homolog of experimentally known structure for similar to 20%-45% of all proteins; the regions with structural homology covered 20%-30% of all residues. These numbers may or may not suggest that there are 1200-2600 folds in the universe of protein structures.
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