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. 2008 Jul 30;9:325. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-325

Table 1.

Features that potentially influence peptide fragmentation.

ID Features Abbreviation
1 Identity of residue C-terminal to fragmentation site RB_C
2 Identity of residue N-terminal to fragmentation site RB_N
3 Distance from fragmentation site to peptide N-terminus DB_N
4 Distance from fragmentation site to peptide C-terminus DB_C
5 Distance from fragmentation site to peptide center DB_M
6 Whether fragmentation site is at either end of peptide B_E
7 Basicity of residue N-terminal to fragmentation site BaRB_N
8 Basicity of residue C-terminal to fragmentation site BaRB_C
9 Average basicity of residues N/C terminal to fragmentation site BaRB_A
10 Difference in basicity of residues N/C terminal to fragmentation site BaRB_D
11 Basicity of fragmented y-ion BaYI
12 Basicity of whole peptide BaP
13 Helicity of residue N-terminal to fragmentation site HeRB_N
14 Helicity of residue C-terminal to fragmentation site HeRB_C
15 Average helicity of residues N/C terminal to fragmentation site HeRB_A
16 Difference in helicity of residues N/C terminal to fragmentation site HeRB_D
17 Hydrophobicity of residue N-terminal to fragmentation site HyRB_N
18 Hydrophobicity of residue C-terminal to fragmentation site HyRB_C
19 Average Hydrophobicity of residues N/C terminal to fragmentation site HyRB_A
20 Difference in Hydrophobicity of residues N/C terminal to fragmentation site HyRB_D
21 Hydrophobicity of fragmented y-ion HyYI
22 Hydrophobicity of whole peptide HyP
23 pI value of residue N-terminal to fragmentation site PIRB_N
24 pI value of residue C-terminal to fragmentation site PIRB_C
25 Average pI of residues N/C terminal to fragmentation site PIRB_A
26 Difference in pI of residues N/C terminal to fragmentation site PIRB_D
27 Length of whole peptide LP
28 Length of fragmented y-ion LYI
29 Ratio of length of fragmented y-ion and peptide RLIP
30 Number of basic residues in whole peptide NBaR_P
31 Number of basic residues in fragmented y-ion NBaR_YI
32 Mass of whole peptide MP
33 Mass of fragmented y-ion MYI
34 Ratio of mass of fragmentated y-ion and peptide RMIP
35 Distance from fragmentation site to basic residues DBBa

All features listed above are supposed to exert influences on the gas-phase fragmentation of peptides. They are subject to further examination by the Bayesian neural network model.