Table 2. Fitnesses and equilibrium frequencies of amino acids in buried and exposed sites in proteins.
Exposed | Buried | |||
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Amino acid | πJ,buried | FJ,buried | πJ,exposed | FJ,exposed |
D | 0.0214 | 0 | 0.0871 | 0 |
E | 0.0151 | −0.348 | 0.0931 | 0.067 |
R | 0.0202 | −0.061 | 0.0646 | −0.299 |
K | 0.0076 | −1.041 | 0.1021 | 0.159 |
H | 0.0403 | 0.633 | 0.0480 | −0.595 |
L | 0.0806 | 1.326 | 0.0180 | −1.576 |
M | 0.0743 | 1.244 | 0.0225 | −1.352 |
I | 0.0831 | 1.356 | 0.0165 | −1.663 |
V | 0.0793 | 1.301 | 0.0225 | −1.352 |
F | 0.0781 | 1.294 | 0.0180 | −1.576 |
W | 0.0693 | 1.174 | 0.0150 | −1.758 |
Y | 0.0567 | 0.973 | 0.0225 | −1.352 |
S | 0.0416 | 0.663 | 0.0661 | −0.276 |
T | 0.0441 | 0.722 | 0.0586 | −0.397 |
N | 0.0264 | 0.211 | 0.0811 | −0.072 |
Q | 0.0214 | 0 | 0.0811 | −0.071 |
C | 0.0932 | 1.471 | 0.0091 | −2.269 |
G | 0.0504 | 0.856 | 0.0661 | −0.276 |
Note that amino acid frequencies are taken from Table 1 in Baud and Karlin (1999). The fitnesses are calculated by solving Equation 16 and setting the fitness of asparagine (D) to zero so that FJ,k = log(πJ,k/πD,k).