Figure 2. Correlation between 3CLpro activities and structural properties of substituting residues.
The relative protease activities of 3CLpro from HCoV-NL63 (shaded, group 1), HCoV-OC43 (white, group 2a), SARS-CoV (black, group 2b) and IBV (grey, group 3), were correlated with structural properties of substituting residue properties, including side chain volume [28], hydrophobicity [29] and α-helix and β-sheet propensities [30]. Correlation coefficients of +/−0.56 and +/−0.44 correspond to p-values of 0.01 and 0.05 respectively.