In the largest mapping of proteins ever to be conducted across different species, an international team of researchers have analysed and compared the proteins of 100 animal, plant and bacterial species.
The different life forms appear to have remarkable similarities when looking at their proteins. The new study has also doubled the number of experimentally confirmed proteins.
The Earth hosts an abundance of life forms – from well-known animals and plants to small, more hardy life forms such as archaea, viruses and bacteria. These life forms are fundamentally different all the way down to the cell level. Or so scientists thought.
Now an international team of researchers has analysed the proteins found in 100 different species – from bacteria and archaea to plants and humans. It is the largest protein mapping ever to be conducted across different species.
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