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. 2013 Feb 7;9(2):e1002905. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002905

Table 2. Seven functional classes of proteins we studied are found to be not significantly distinguished in their folded topology.

Functional class Size of class Subgroups, if any, included One-tail p-value
Kinase 213 - 0.1449
Globin 32 Myoglobin and hemoglobin 0.4154
Dehydrogenase 297 - 0.3461
Polymerase 67 DNA/RNA polymerase 0.0572
Chaperone 33 - 0.2925
Antigen 49 - 0.4411
Muscle 18 Actin, myosin, titin, nebulin 0.1972

The shared folds between each functional class of proteins and their complement are not significantly small compared to what happens with random chances, with a one-tailed p-value greater than 0.05 in every case, suggesting that these cellular proteins are highly connected in structural fold space.