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ArticleGenomics, proteomics & bioinformatics2009

Bioinformatic comparison of bacterial secretomes.

Catharine Song, Aseem Kumar, Mazen Saleh

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Article in Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Catharine SongDepartment of Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Aseem Kumar
Mazen Saleh

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rapid increasing number of completed bacterial genomes provides a good opportunity to compare their proteomes. This study was undertaken to specifically compare and contrast their secretomes-the fraction of the proteome with predicted N-terminal signal sequences, both type I and type II. A total of 176 theoretical bacterial proteomes were examined using the ExProt program. Compared with the Gram-positives, the Gram-negative bacteria were found, on average, to contain a larger number of potential Sec-dependent sequences. In the Gram-negative bacteria but not in the others, there was a positive correlation between proteome size and secretome size, while there was no correlation between secretome size and pathogenicity. Within the Gram-negative bacteria, intracellular pathogens were found to have the smallest secretomes. However, the secretomes of certain bacteria did not fit into the observed pattern. Specifically, the secretome of Borrelia burgdoferi has an unusually large number of putative lipoproteins, and the signal peptides of mycoplasmas show closer sequence similarity to those of the Gram-negative bacteria. Our analysis also suggests that even for a theoretical minimal genome of 300 open reading frames, a fraction of this gene pool (up to a maximum of 20%) may code for proteins with Sec-dependent signal sequences.

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Computational BiologyProtein Sorting SignalsBacteriaBacterial ProteinsGenome, BacterialProteomeRibosomesBacterial ProteinsProtein Sorting SignalsProteome

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PMID19591790
PMCPMC5054224

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