High abundance of Serine/Threonine-rich regions predicted to be hyper-O-glycosylated in the secretory proteins coded by eight fungal genomes

Table 1 Predictions obtained from SignalP and NetOGlyc for the proteins coded by the eight fungal genomes

Organism	Total number of proteins	Predicted to have signal peptide^a	Predicted to have signal peptide and to beO-Glycosylated^b
Botrytis cinerea T4	16360	1910 (11.7%)	1146 (60.0%)
Magnaporthe grisea	11109	2023 (18.2%)	1400 (69.2%)
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum	14522	1551 (10.7%)	913 (58.9%)
Ustilago maydis	9129	837 (12.8%)	603 (72.0%)
Aspergillus nidulans	10560	1453 (13.8%)	932 (64.1%)
Neurospora crassa	9907	1250 (12.6%)	929 (74.3%)
Trichoderma reesei	9129	1169 (9.2%)	695 (59.5%)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae	5900	594 (10.1%)	250 (42.1%)
Global average	10827	1348.4 (12.4%)	858.5 (63.7%)

^a As predicted by SignalP, percentages are calculated in relation to the total number of proteins.
^b As predicted by SignalP and NetOGlyc, percentages are calculated in relation to the number of proteins predicted to have signal peptide.

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