Australian Jack Irishâex-lawyer and sometime debt collector, cabinetmaker and barflyâgets a double introduction as MacAdam/Cage releases his first two adventures (number two is Black Tide) this month.
But ever since then, the estimated number has been steadily shrinking. A new study suggests that the human genome could contain as few as 19,000 protein-coding genes, fewer than nematode worms. In 2001, the initial sequence of the human genome cut the figure dramatically.
Number of human proteins in the databank: 37,391*. Average length of each human protein: 480 amino acids. Approximate average mass of a human protein: 53 kDa. Just because an open reading frame appears in the genome does not mean it is transcribed and then translated into a protein. Many of those 37,391 hypothetical protein sequences aren't coding for actual proteins.