Table 3. Abundance of myxobacterial PTPs in contrast to the 66 genome COG database.
| COG group | description | abbreviation | COG database | Mxan | Sce | Adeh |
| COG2453 | Predicted protein-tyrosine phosphatase | PTP | 27/17/6 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| COG0394 | Protein-tyrosine-phosphatase | low MW PTPs | 70/38/5 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| COG2365 | Protein tyrosine/serine phosphatase | DSP PTPs | 19/12/5 | 1 | ||
| COG4551 | Predicted protein tyrosine phosphatase | PTP | 4/4/1 | |||
| COG5350 | Predicted protein tyrosine phosphatase | PTP | 6/5/2 | |||
| COG4464 | Capsular polysaccharide biosynthesis protein | PTPZ | 7/5/2 | 1 | 1 |
The three numbers in the COG database row represent the following: total number of proteins in the 66 genome COG database/total number of genomes in which those proteins were found/highest number of proteins per single bacterial genome.