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. 2009 Dec 21;19(2):327–348. doi: 10.1002/pro.314

Table V.

Comparison of Relative Accessible Surface Area in Amyloidogenic and Non-amyloidogenic β-Strand Residues

Number of β-strand residuesa
Average relative ASA per β-strand residueb %
PDB ID Amyloidogenic sequence(s) Amyloidogenic Non-amyloidogenic Amyloidogenic Non-amyloidogenic
β-Lactoglobulin 1BEB (dimer) 11–20 52 98 11.3 22.0
101–110
116–126
146–152
β2-Microglobulin 1BOG 58–71 16 38 27.5 20.2
83–89
91–96
B. subtilis cspB protein 2ES2 1–22 15 23 23.9 26.8
Gelsolin 1KCQ 182–192 8 27 3.44 28.9
Human complement receptor 1 1GKG 1038–1054 5 41 23.5 34.2
Lactoferrin 1LFH 538–545 4 138 0 12.6
Laminin 2JD4 (biol. mol.1) 2919–2930 9 187 6.3 18.3
Medin 3BN6 299–308 15 69 14.1 18.3
309–316 (70–87 in 3BN6)
Transthyretin 1TTA (tetramer) 105–115 40 232 10.6 16.4
B. subtilis ‘YjcG’ protein 2D4G (dimer) 151–156 8 110 11.7 19.6
DNA polymerase III subunit alpha, E. coli 2HNH 513–518 6 81 1.52 10.6
20S proteasome Bos taurus 1IRU 18–23 (chains N and 2) 10 144 0.41 11.3
Na+/Ca2+-exchange protein 1, C. familiaris 2DPK 455–459 5 73 17.5 26.7
Thymidine kinase, cystolic, human 1W4R 133–137 (chains A,B,C & D) 4 232 8.03 15.3
Glycyl-tRNA synthetase, Thermus thermophilus 1ATI (dimer) 399–403 6 294 0.50 16.4
Leucine-binding protein, E. coli 1USG 3–7 5 74 14.3 18.1
Mean ± SD 11 ± 9 20 ± 7
t-test, t −3.20
t-test, df 27.7
t-test, P-value 0.0035
Mann-Whitney test, P-value 0.0045
1

Secondary structure according to DeepView: Swiss-PdbViewer (Guex and Peitsch, 1997).

2

Accessible surface area (ASA), average relative surface area per residue (%) computed by the NACCESS program (Hubbard and Thornton, 1993).