Table 1.

Summary of COILS prediction of 26 bacterial genomes.

Species	Class	> 100a	> 200a	Rodb
S. coelicolor	Actinobacteria	15	6	3
S. tropica	Actinobacteria	11	4	4
N. farcinica	Actinobacteria	10	5	3
Frankia sp. CcI3	Actinobacteria	5	0	2
Nocardioides sp. JS614	Actinobacteria	4	2	2
M. tuberculosis	Actinobacteria	2	1	2
R. rubrum	Alphaproteobacteria	5	1	2
H. neptunium	Alphaproteobacteria	5	1	2
C. crescentus	Alphaproteobacteria	4	2	1
Maricaulis maris	Alphaproteobacteria	3	1	0
Agrobacterium tumefaciens	Alphaproteobacteria	3	1	0
P. ubique	Alphaproteobacteria	3	2	2
G. metallireducens	Deltaproteobacteria	12	2	1
Desulfovibrio desulphuricans	Deltaproteobacteria	7	0	0
H. pylori	Epsilonproteobacteria	18	3	4
C. jejuni	Epsilonproteobacteria	5	0	5
H. hepaticus	Epsilonproteobacteria	1	0	2
V. parahaemolyticus	Gammaproteobacteria	11	1	2
P. multocida	Gammaproteobacteria	10	1	2
E. coli 536	Gammaproteobacteria	8	2	0
V. cholerae	Gammaproteobacteria	10	2	1
B. subtilis str. 168	Bacillales	13	5	1
R. baltica	Planctomycetacia	22	7	2
L. interrogans	Spirochaetes	9	2	0
B. burgdorferi	Spirochaetes	7	1	2
T. pallidum	Spirochaetes	5	2	1

^aNumber of proteins with more than 100 and 200 amino acid residues in coiled coil conformation encoded in each genome.

^bNumber of proteins with a putative rod domain and no known function encoded in the respective genome.