TABLE 5.
Distribution of rRNA-, mRNA-, tRNA- and snRNA-binding proteins in different kingdoms and in top 10 host species
| rRNA-binding | mRNA-binding | tRNA-binding | snRNA-binding | |||||
| kingdom or species | no. of proteins | kingdom or species | no. of proteins | kingdom or species | no. of proteins | kingdom or species | no. of proteins | |
| Protein distribution in kingdom | Eucaryote | 493 | Eucaryote | 310 | Eucaryote | 19 | Eucaryote | 50 |
| Eubacteria | 1330 | Eubacteria | 235 | Eubacteria | 230 | Eubacteria | – | |
| Archaea | 181 | Archaea | – | Archaea | 10 | Archaea | – | |
| Protein distribution in top 10 species | Thermus thermophilus | 32 | Homo sapiens | 77 | Thermus thermophilus | 6 | Homo sapiens | 18 |
| Aquifex aeolicus | 29 | Candida albicans | 41 | Homo sapiens | 5 | Candida albicans | 15 | |
| Mycobacterium leprae | 28 | Mus musculus | 36 | Bacillus subtilis | 5 | Mus musculus | 5 | |
| Chlamydia pneumoniae | 28 | Schizosaccharomyces pombe | 21 | Escherichia coli | 5 | Xenopus laevis | 3 | |
| Helicobacter pylori | 28 | Escherichia coli | 21 | Pasteurella multocida | 4 | Drosophila melanogaster | 3 | |
| Rickettsia prowazekii | 28 | Arabidopsis thaliana | 19 | Mycoplasma genitalium | 4 | Schizosaccharomyces pombe | 3 | |
| Thermotoga maritima | 28 | Caenorabditis elegans | 18 | Deinococcus radiodurans | 4 | Caenorhabditis elegans | 2 | |
| Chlamydia trachomatis | 28 | Drosophila melanogaster | 15 | Neisseria meningitidis (serogroup A) | 4 | Rattus norvegicus | 2 | |
| Borrelia burgdorferi | 28 | Rattus norvegicus | 14 | Helicobacter pylori | 4 | Arabidopsis thaliana | 2 | |
| Buchnera aphidicola | 28 | Nicotiana tabacum | 11 | Campylobacter jejuni | 4 | Macropus eugenii | 1 | |
Not all protein sequences studied in this work are included because the host species information of some protein sequences is not yet available in the protein sequence database.