Table 1.

Commonly Occurring SCOP Superfamilies in the Proteomes

SCOP superfamily Human Fly Worm Yeast Archaea Bacteria
N R N R N R N R N R N R
Classic zinc finger, C2H2509211096119010749269
Immunoglobulin[iii] 12142483345728911135494
EGF/laminin1192332044134
P-loop containing nucleotide triphosphate  hydrolases[iii] 847457525161408112611681
Fibronectin type III[iii] 84252477222813011237
Cadherin60862221013521372
RNA-binding domain5877282519991283420
Protein kinase-like (PK-like)[iii] 5578271643431422372582
Hemeodomain-like33491441814517322012211716
Spectrin repeat32710227915013
PH domain-like[iii] 3271014019100312329
SH3 domain304121052370372923454
EF-hand[iii] 2841316314120262329420
Ankyrin repeat27814120211282431221342
Complement control module/SCR domain2771557385243
PDZ domain-like2651610324893261201169664
Ligand-binding domain of low-density  lipoprotein receptor2471719612143183194
Tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR)[iii] 2151817113115279854481619
RING-finger domain, C3HC42071910822122253319
Trp-Asp repeat (WD-repeat)193201981114219114421213157
C2 domain (Calcium/lipid-binding[iii]  domain, CaLB)18621683289323220
NAD(P)-binding Rossmann-fold domains[iii] 177221501613023887273722
ARM repeat[iii] 1772213720105288081221
SH2 domain[iii] 1612459377235891
Thioredoxin-like[iii] 15225148171481450128211813
C-type lectin-like[iii] 1492640533105454
Glucocorticoid receptor-like  (DNA-binding domain)[iii] 14327693128161459
ConA-like lectins/glucanases[iii] 1362866341052889111693157
Actin-like ATPase domain[iii] 135296535385658102971226
No. distinct proteins in proteome28,91313,92216,3236,2372,1762,789
No. distinct superfamilies in proteome   546   518   482  434  328  499

[i] R, the rank of a superfamily within a proteome.

[ii] N, the frequency of domains within this superfamily.

[iii] Denotes that our analysis showed that several PFAM (Bateman et al. 2000) families (and hence several INTERPRO families) are included within the single SCOP superfamily. The number of distinct proteins and the number of domains per superfamily (N) for archaea and bacteria are averages, whereas the number of distinct superfamilies are totals over the species (seven for bacteria and three for archaea).