Table 1. Correlations between optimized force constants associated with contact orders of k≤5, indicative of compensating interactions between near neighbors along the sequence.

	k = 1	k = 2	k = 3	k = 4	k = 5
k  = 1	1.000	−0.274	0.206	0.259	−0.285
k  = 2	−0.641 (−0.193)	1.000	−0.689	−0.169	0.256
k  = 3	0.610 (−0.353)	−0.578 (−0.562)	1.000	0.251	−0.437
k  = 4	0.206 (−0.100)	0.042 (−0.210)	0.307 (−0.128)	1.000	−0.614
k  = 5	−0.340 (−0.189)	0.082 (0.163)	−0.454 (−0.201)	−0.787 (−0.500)	1.000

The upper triangle indicates results for all residues (written in boldface), and the lower triangle indicates results for pairs of residues in helices (strands) only. See Methods for calculation details.