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. 2012 Mar 14;4(5):618–625. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evs025

Table 1.

Comparison of Substrate Properties among the Modules

Variable As Isa Random Correlation with Expression Level in the Networkb
Expression Expression level 2.22 × 10−16** 0.62
CAI 2.38 × 10−06** 0.37 0.54**
Optimal codons 1.18 × 10−05** 0.76 0.53**
Secondary structure Alpha helix 0.0067** 0.08 0.02
Coiled coils 0.0256** 0.4 0.21**
Beta sheets 0.0833 0.53 0.21**
Physiochemical properties Protein length 4.13 × 10−09** 0.94 −0.17**
Hydrophobic amino acids 0.2177 0.23 0.18**
Negative amino acids 0.0008** 0.56 0.08**
Positive amino acids 0.5682 0.72 −0.06**
Polar amino acids 0.0081** 0.83 −0.31**
Aromaticity index 0.0017** 0.43 −0.04**
Gravy 0.171 0.58 0.14**
Amino acid frequencies Alanine 6.60 × 10−07** 0.89 0.36**
Arginine 0.3581 0.8 −0.09**
Asparagine 0.0384* 0.58 −0.27**
Aspartate 4.71 × 10−05** 0.08 0.03
Cysteine 0.5354 0.23 −0.09**
Glutamine 0.0064** 0.87 −0.08**
Glutamate 0.2669 0.97 0.09**
Glycine 0.0172** 0.24 0.25**
Histidine 0.4528 0.07 −0.10**
Isoleucine 0.0027** 0.11 −0.06**
Leucine 0.0031** 0.47 −0.08**
Lysine 0.4807 0.75 0.03**
Methionine 0.3369 0.61 −0.08**
Phenyl-alanine 0.0012** 0.48 −0.04**
Proline 0.0074** 0.43 −0.07**
Serine 0.0417* 0.07 −0.29**
Threonine 0.4651 0.72 −0.05**
Tryptophan 0.0612 0.48 0.03
Tyrosine 0.0586 0.31 0.02
Valine 0.0185** 0.27 0.27**
Evolutionary rate Substitution rate 2.15 × 10−06** 0.36 −0.42**
% Identical amino acids 1.35 × 10−07** 0.81 0.47**
Substitutions per site 2.58 × 10−07** 0.75 −0.46**
a

Using Kruskal–Wallis test for equality of median ranks with the null hypothesis, H0: μmodule1 = μmodule2 = … = μmodule10.

b

Using Spearman rank correlation coefficient.

*

P value < 0.05.

**

P value < 0.05 using false discovery rate test for multiple comparisons.