Number of transcription factors and genome size of 176 prokaryotes

Range Table - link
Organism prokaryote
Reference Madan Babu M, Teichmann SA, Aravind L. Evolutionary dynamics of prokaryotic transcriptional regulatory networks. J Mol Biol. 2006 Apr 28 358(2):614-33 Supplementary table S4 Article link - link PubMed ID16530225
Method Transcription factor number prediction according to supplementary information in article link (M2: Procedure to identify orthologous proteins).
Comments "[Researchers] use the known transcriptional regulatory network of Escherichia coli to analyse the conservation patterns of this network across 175 prokaryotic genomes, and predict components of the regulatory networks for these organisms." For number of transcription factors in nematodes see BNID 105071,105072,105073,105074
Entered by Uri M
ID 105075