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. 2016 Oct 25;45(Database issue):D1112–D1116. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw978

Table 2. Amino acid frequency for the kingdoms of life in the Proteome-pI database.

Kingdom Ala Cys Asp Glu Phe Gly His Ile Lys Leu Met Asn Pro Gln Arg Ser Thr Val Trp Tyr Total amino acids
Viruses 6.61 1.76 5.81 6.04 4.25 5.79 2.15 6.53 6.35 8.84 2.46 5.41 4.62 3.39 5.24 7.06 6.06 6.50 1.19 3.94 6 150 189
Archaea 8.20 0.98 6.21 7.69 3.86 7.58 1.77 7.03 5.27 9.31 2.35 3.68 4.26 2.38 5.51 6.17 5.44 7.80 1.03 3.45 89 488 664
Bacteria 10.06 0.94 5.59 6.15 3.89 7.76 2.06 5.89 4.68 10.09 2.38 3.58 4.61 3.58 5.88 5.85 5.52 7.27 1.27 2.94 3 716 982 916
Eukaryota 7.63 1.76 5.40 6.42 3.87 6.33 2.44 5.10 5.64 9.29 2.25 4.28 5.41 4.21 5.71 8.34 5.56 6.20 1.24 2.87 3 743 221 293
All 8.76 1.38 5.49 6.32 3.87 7.03 2.26 5.49 5.19 9.68 2.32 3.93 5.02 3.90 5.78 7.14 5.53 6.73 1.25 2.91 7 555 843 062

*Similar statistics for all 5029 proteomes included in Proteome-pI are available online on individual subpages. For di-amino acid frequencies see Supplementary Table S2.