Data showing the compositional complexity of the mitochondrial proteome of a unicellular eukaryote (Acanthamoeba castellanii, supergroup Amoebozoa)

Ryan M R Gawryluk; Kenneth A Chisholm; Devanand M Pinto; Michael W Gray

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2014.08.005

Data showing the compositional complexity of the mitochondrial proteome of a unicellular eukaryote (Acanthamoeba castellanii, supergroup Amoebozoa)

Data Brief. 2014 Aug 22:1:12-4. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2014.08.005. eCollection 2014 Dec.

Authors

Ryan M R Gawryluk¹, Kenneth A Chisholm², Devanand M Pinto², Michael W Gray¹

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
² Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group, National Research Council of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Abstract

This article describes and directly links to 1033 Acanthamoeba castellanii mitochondrial protein sequences. Of these, 709 are supported by Mass Spectrometry (MS) data (676 nucleus-encoded and 33 mitochondrion-encoded). Two of these entries are previously unannotated mtDNA-encoded proteins, which we identify as highly divergent mitochondrial ribosomal proteins. Our analysis corrects many A. castellanii protein sequences that were incorrectly inferred previously from genomic data deposited in NCBI.