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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: Structure. 2007 Nov;15(11):1442–1451. doi: 10.1016/j.str.2007.09.010

Table 2.

Polar buried residues in interfaces are as conserved as all other residues. Polar residues include Asp, Glu, Lys, Arg, Ser, Thr, Asn, and Gln. All other residues are classified as the remainder. The median dN for each dataset is shown.

Structural subset Surface Core Surface interface Buried interface
dN polars 0.434 0.305 0.322 0.219
dN remainder 0.311 0.209 0.260 0.184
P (Wilcoxan) 2.4e-7 1.9e-6 0.002 0.730