Draft:List of proteins in the human body

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

There are many speculations to the number of

proteins which could potentially be made,[1][2][3][4] however various sources agree on an estimated 10,000 proteins which are relevant to the human body.[5][6][7][8] These estimates are thanks to recent advances in technology leading to the birth of the field of Proteomics. Another consensus which can also be found is that it takes 20000-25000 Proteins to make a human work and that our cells have the potential to make around a 100 000 different proteins depending on what is most convenient in the environment we live in.[9][10] Even though this seems like a fair estimate, it is hard to find an empirical database which claims to list more than 10 000 proteins. Another way to approach it is by looking from the bottom up there are ~20,000 protein coding genes in the human genome, (of which it is estimated that 12,733 already have Wikipedia articles (the Gene Wiki) about them). If wone where to Including splice variants, some argue that there could be as many as 500,000 unique human proteins.[11]
All of these speculations are based on how the average human at the start of the 21' century looks.

This is a list for only those proteins which have been found in the human body so far. It contains about 1100 unique proteins (all of which have their own wiki article), some of which are listed multiple times waiting to be merged into one row. After the merging work there is still about 9200 proteins yet to be described and listed.

Proteins

Naming Convention for the list

Essential cell biology 5 edition lists: Enzymes(which typically have

TC number
), Motor Proteins, Storage Proteins, Signal proteins, Receptor Proteins, Transcription Proteins as the most common types of proteins. Finally the make a very broad category of Special-purpose proteins. So far this seems to be the most simple yet sufficient way to split proteins into types

Column name Meaning and convention
name The name of the protein in accordance with Gene nomenclature
Protein type Either: Enzymes(
TC number
Should be added here), Motor Proteins, Storage Proteins, Signal proteins, Receptor Proteins, Trranscription Proteins or Special-purpose proteins
Location The Tissue, Organs or place and thing in the body where this protein is used
Produced by The cell which typically produce the protein, in case the protein is not produced in the human body please start this column with (Outside the human body).
Folding Variations This refers to the proteins structural domain or Protein domain
Produced by the human body This column indicates weather a protein can be made my the human body. There is a place for proteins in this list which are not made in the human body but which still have a messurable effect on the human body, such as certain types of medicine.

*An Enzyme Commission number refers to the reaction catalyzed by an enzyme and not the enzyme protein itself. This means that there is often more than one human gene that corresponds to a given EC number.

List of databases containing Human Proteins

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Is there are theoretical limit to the number of proteins possible and their respective structure?". Biology Stack Exchange. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  3. ^ "How many different possible proteins, 300 amino acids in length, could exist?". Quora. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  4. ^ "How can 20 different amino acids permit 75000 different proteins?". homework.study.com. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
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  8. ^ "What is a protein? | Precision Medicine – SIB". www.precisionmed.ch. 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  9. ^ "3.7: Proteins, Genes and Evolution- How Many Proteins are We?". Biology LibreTexts. 2019-01-04. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
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  11. ^ Pray L (2008). "Eukaryotic genome complexity". Nature Education. 1 (1): 96.
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