Table 4. Comparison of the total net charge of dual localized versus exclusive mitochondrial proteins of the reference set.
Protein location | Total Net Charge | |||||
N | Median | Mean | SD | p-value* (Mann-Whitney) | p-value* (χ2 score, df) | |
Mitochondrial proteins | 535 | 6.00 | 6.80 | 11.82 | - | - |
Predicted exclusive mitochondrial proteins | 409 | 7.00 | 7.29 | 10.51 | 0.0024 | 0.032 (10.6, 4) |
Predicted dual localized mitochondrial proteins | 126 | 3.00 | 5.21 | 15.26 |
Dual targeted mitochondrial proteins have a lower total protein net charge than exclusive mitochondrial proteins. Statistical analysis of differences between parameters of dual and exclusive mitochondrial proteins was carried out as in Table 2.* Differences are considered significant if p-value <0.05.