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Table 1 General features of the A. ferrooxidans ATCC 23270 genome.

From: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans metabolism: from genome sequence to industrial applications

Characteristic

Value

Complete genome size, bp

2,982,397

G+C percent (%)

58.77

Total number of CDSs

3,217

Coding density (%)

97.45

No. of rRNA operons (16S-23S-5S)

2

No. of tRNA genes

78

Proteins with known function

2,070

Conserved hypothetical proteins

388

Hypothetical proteins

759

Most represented functional categories

(%)

Cell envelope

7.8

Transport and binding proteins

7.61

Energy metabolism

6.52

Best BLASTP comparisons against complete proteomes

Number of best blast hits

γ-proteobacteria

899

β-proteobacteria

791

α-proteobacteria

271

δ-proteobacteria

103

Cyanobacteria

73

Archaea

41