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. 2008 Jan 11;94(8):3293–3312. doi: 10.1529/biophysj.107.115477

TABLE 1.

Chemical composition of the outer proteic capsid of MS2 bacteriophage and corresponding parameters Inline graphic and Inline graphic as involved in Eqs. 15–17; see text for further detail

Amino acids Inline graphic ɛ3,m Inline graphicF3,m/mM
Glutamic acid (−COOH) 2.79 −1 −370
Tyrosine (−COOH) 2.95 −1 −74
Aspartic acid (−COOH) 3.30 −1 −296
Alanine (Inline graphic) 7.93 +1 +74
Cysteine (−SH) 9.35 −1 −148
Tyrosine (−OH) 10.00 −1 −296
Lysine (Inline graphic) 10.89 +1 +444
Arginine (Inline graphic) 12.22 +1 +296