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Table 2 Bacteria and archaea with the highest proportion of encoded signaling proteins of each type

From: A census of membrane-bound and intracellular signal transduction proteins in bacteria: Bacterial IQ, extroverts and introverts

Organism

Phylum

No. proteins (%total)

Histidine kinases

  

Nostoc sp. PCC 7120

Cyano

134 (2.2%)

Geobacter sulfurreducens

Delta

92 (2.7%)

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron

Other

85 (1.8%)

Rhodopseudomonas palustris

Alpha

66 (1.4%)

Desulfovibrio vulgaris

Delta

64 (1.8%)

Wolinella succinogenes

Epsilon

39 (1.9%)

Haloarcula marismortui

Archaea

59 (1.4%)

MCPs

  

Vibrio vulnificus

Gamma

52 (1.2%)

Pseudomonas syringae

Gamma

48 (0.9%)

Vibrio cholerae

Gamma

45 (1.2%)

Chromobacterium violaceum

Beta

42 (1.0%)

Clostridium acetobutylicum

Firmicutes

38 (1.0%)

Wolinella succinogenes

Epsilon

31 (1.5%)

Halobacterium salinarium

Archaea

17 (0.6%)

Ser/Thr protein kinases

  

Rhodopirellula baltica

Other

60 (0.8%)

Nostoc sp. PCC 7120

Cyano

52 (0.9%)

Streptomyces coelicolor

Actino

37 (0.4%)

Streptomyces avermitilis

Actino

35 (0.4%)

Gloeobacter violaceus

Cyano

20 (0.4%)

.Thermosynechococcus elongatus

Cyano

17 (0.7%)

Sulfolobus tokodaii

Archaea

12 (0.4%)

Diguanylate cyclases

  

Vibrio vulnificus

Gamma

66 (1.5%)

Shewanella oneidensis

Gamma

52 (1.2%)

Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Gamma

44 (0.9%)

Chromobacterium violaceum

Beta

43 (1.0%)

Vibrio cholerae

Gamma

41 (1.1%)

Idiomarina loihiensis

Gamma

33 (1.3%)

Adenylate cyclases

  

Bradyrhizobium japonicum

Alpha

37 (0.4%)

Sinorhizobium meliloti

Alpha

28 (0.5%)

Leptospira interrogans

Spiro

18 (0.4%)

Mycobacterium bovis

Actino

16 (0.4%)

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Actino

16 (0.4%)

Treponema denticola

Spiro

9 (0.3%)

HD-GYP domains

  

Desulfovibrio vulgaris

Delta

14 (0.4%)

Vibrio vulnificus

Gamma

13 (0.3%)

Chromobacterium violaceum

Beta

11 (0.2%)

Thermotoga maritima

Other

10 (0.5%)

Desulfotalea psychrophila

Delta

10 (0.3%)

Geobacter sulfurreducens

Delta

10 (0.3%)

  1. a – Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon indicate the corresponding subdivisions of Proteobacteria; Cyano indicates cyanobacteria; Spiro indicates Spirochetes.