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. 2013 Sep;195(1):195–204. doi: 10.1534/genetics.113.152025

Table 2. Fitnesses and equilibrium frequencies of amino acids in buried and exposed sites in proteins.

Exposed Buried
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).