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.