Genome-wide analysis of regulatory proteases sequences identified through bioinformatics data mining in Taenia solium

Table 1 Overview of characteristics of putative protease sequences encoded by the genome of Taenia solium

Protease class	Numbers of sequences	Numbers of families	Proteases with predicted transmembrane helices		Proteases with signal sequence
Protease class	Numbers of sequences	Numbers of families	TMMOD	TMHMM	Proteases with signal sequence
Aspartic	24	2	2	2	3
Cysteine	50	9	3	6	5
Metallo	69	16	17	19	11
Serine	41	8	18	19	13
Threonine	16	2	0	0	2
Totals	200	37	40	46	34

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