Table 1.
Proteome sequence data sets downloaded for MultiCoil analysis
| Organism | Number of proteins | Date of download | Comments (info as provided by EBI and TIGR) |
| Archaea (extremophiles): | |||
| Archaeoglobus fulgidus (A.f.) | 2400 | 10-Jun-2004 | hyperthermophilic, organoheterotrophic-lithoautotrophic, sulfur-metabolizing; glycoprotein envelope, flagellated |
| Methanococcus jannaschii (M.j.) | 1782 | 10-Jun-2004 | thermophilic, methanogenic, autotrophic, strict anaerobic; grows under high pressure in deep sea, flagellated |
| Sulfolobus solfataricus (S.s.) | 2939 | 28-Jan-2004 | thermophilic, sulfuric acid-producing, aerobic; no flagella, but pilus-like and pseudopodium-like structures |
| Thermoplasma acidophilum (T.a.) | 1479 | 28-Jan-2004 | thermoacidophilic; flagellated, no cell wall |
| Gram-positive bacteria: | |||
| Actinobacteria: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.t.) | 3995 | 10-Jun-2004 | animal pathogen (tuberculosis); no flagella |
| Bacilli: Bacillus subtilis (B.s.) | 4167 | 28-Jan-2004 | capable of producing endospores, flagellated |
| Mollicutes: Mycoplasma genitalium (M.g.) | 486 | 10-Jun-2004 | animal pathogen (surface parasite), smallest known self-replication cell & genome; no flagella |
| Gram-negative bacteria: | |||
| Alphaproteobacteria: Agrobacterium tumefaciens (A.tu.) | 5393 | 10-Jun-2004 | plant pathogen (crown gall); flagellated |
| Betaproteobacteria: Chromobacterium violaceum (C.v.) | 4400 | 10-Jun-2004 | subtropical/tropical; produces antimicrobial violacein, flagellated |
| Gammaproteobacteria: Escherichia coli K12 (E.c.) | 4356 | 28-Jan-2004 | enterobacterium, laboratory strain, flagellated |
| Epsilonproteobacteria: Heliobacter pylori (H.p.) | 1556 | 10-Jun-2004 | animal pathogen; micro-aerophilic, spiral-shaped, flagellated |
| Chlamydiae: Chlamydia pneumoniae (C.p.) | 1110 | 10-Jun-2004 | animal pathogen (obligate intracellular parasite), no flagella |
| Spirochaetes: Borrelia burgdorferi (B.b.) | 1558 | 10-Jun-2004 | animal pathogen (Lime disease); spiral-shaped, flagellated |
| Cyanobacteria: Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 (S.sp.) | 3164 | 28-Jan-2004 | photosynthetic (oxygenic), no flagella |
| Yeast: | |||
| Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S.c.) | 6191 | 28-Jan-2004 | baker's yeast |
| Schizosaccaromyces pombe (S.p.) | 5037 | 28-Jan-2004 | fission yeast |
| Metazoa: | |||
| Caenorhabditis elegans (C.e.) | 22873 | 28-Jan-2004 | nematode |
| Drosophila melanogaster (D.m.) | 16196 | 28-Jan-2004 | insect (fruitfly) |
| Mus musculus (M.m.) | 27577 | 28-Jan-2004 | mammal (mouse) |
| Homo sapiens (H.s.) | 29024 | 28-Jan-2004 | mammal (human) |
| Plants: | |||
| Arabidopsis thaliana (A.t.) | 26945 | 28-Jan-2004 | dicot |
| Oryza sativa ssp. Japonica (O.s.) | 56056 | 9-Jan-2004 | monocot (rice) |
Proteome sequence sets were downloaded from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) [106] or The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR) [107]. The number of protein sequence entries reflects the annotation of ORFs at the time of download.