Comparison of the genome characteristics and the in silico metabolic networks of prokaryotic and eukaryotic species
Prokaryotes | Eukaryotes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. coelicolor A3(2) | E. colia | H. influenzaeb | H. pyloric | S. cerevisiaed | ||||
| Genome characteristics | ||||||||
| Genome length (bp) | 8,667,507 | 4,639,221 | 1,830,135 | 1,667,867 | 12,175,026 | |||
| G+C content | 72% | 51% | 38% | 39% | 40% | |||
| ORF | 7825 | 4288 | 1743 | 1590 | 6281 | |||
| Assigned function | 5492 | 2656 | 1011 | 1091 | 4379 | |||
| No assigned function | 2333 | 1632 | 732 | 499 | 1902 | |||
| In silico metabolic network characteristics | ||||||||
| Total reactions (unique) | 971 (700) | 931 (931) | 461 | 381 | 1175 (842) | |||
| Biochemical conversions | 819 | 767 | 826 | |||||
| Transport | 152 | 164 | 349 | |||||
| Reactions with ORF (% of total reactions) | 764 (79%) | 873 (94%) | 412 (89%) | 272 (71%) | 1035 (88%) | |||
| Metabolites | 500 | 625 | 367 | 332 | 584 | |||
| ORF (% of ORFs with assigned function) | 711 (13%) | 904 (34%) | 400 (40%) | 290 (27%) | 708 (16%) | |||
a Escherichia coli K-12 (Reed et al. 2003).
b Haemophilus influenzae Rd (Schilling and Palsson 2000).
c Helicobacter pylori 26695 (Schilling et al. 2002).
d Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Förster et al. 2003a).