Table 4

History of distribution of gene product types for E. coli K-12

Gene product type

1993*

1998

2001


Enzyme

748

906

990

Putative enzyme

452

550

Transporter

221

257

310

Putative transporter

281

298

Regulator

164

204

213

Putative regulator

168

151

Membrane

37

47

Putative membrane

55

132

Factor

36

68

109

Putative factor

52

33

Structure

113§

83

90

Putative structure

58

35

Carrier

17

35

Putative carrier

6

25

Extrachromosomal origin

56

282

Putative extrachromosomal

15

Phenotype

314

148

98

RNA

104

112

116

Putative RNA

4

Leader

12

12

ORF

1,413

886

Total

1,700

4,404

4,412


*Adapted from Riley [24]. Data from July 1998 record of GenProtEC. Includes enzymes, leader peptides and enzyme activity. §Includes membrane components. This number includes overlap situations where modules of a gene belong to different gene product type categories. The total number of genes is 4,401.

Serres et al. Genome Biology 2001 2:research0035.1   doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-9-research0035

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