De novo gene birth and the conundrum of ORFan genes in bacteria

Table 3.

Studies reporting the presence of nonannotated bacterial proteins using mass spectrometry

Year of publication Organisms studied Number of nonannotated proteins identified Reference
2023 Pseudomonas stutzeri 29 Meier-Credo et al. 2023
2021 Nostoc sp. 26 Yu et al. 2021
2021 Staphylococcus aureus 24 Fuchs et al. 2021
2021 SIHUMIx (eight species in the simplified human intestinal microbiota) 31 Petruschke et al. 2021­
2020 Salmonella enterica, Deinococcus radiodurans 18 (S. enterica), 33 (D. radiodurans) Willems et al. 2020
2020 Listeria monocytogenes 4 Varadarajan et al. 2020
2019 Neomegalonema perideroedes 38 Herbst et al. 2019
2019 Mycoplasma pneumoniae 11 Miravet-Verde et al. 2019
2018 Methylobacterium extorquens 39 Bibi-Triki et al. 2018
2017 Bartonella henselae 10 Omasits et al. 2017
2017 Escherichia coli 4 D'Lima et al. 2017
2017 Xanthomonas euvesicatoria 30 Abendroth et al. 2017
2017 Brucella abortus 6 Zai et al. 2017
2016 Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycoplasma genitalium 38 (M. pneumoniae), 23 (M. genitalium) Chen et al. 2016
  • Only publications appearing since 2015 are listed.

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