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. 2013 Dec 9;7(Suppl 5):S9. doi: 10.1186/1752-0509-7-S5-S9

Table 1.

The classification of protein properties

Property type Category Amino acid
Hydrophobicity Polar R, K, E, D, Q, N
Neutral G, A, S, T, P, H, Y
Hydrophobic C, V, L, I,M, F,W

Polarizability 0-0.108 G, A, S, D, T
0.128-0.186 C, P, N, V, E, Q, I, L
0.219-0.409 K, M, H, F, R, Y, W

NVVa 0-2.78 G, A, S, C, T, P, D
2.95-4.0 N, V, E, Q, I, L
4.43-8.08 M, H, K, F, R, Y, W

Polarity 4.9-6.2 L, I, F, W, C, M, V, Y
8.0-9.2 P, A, T, G, S
10.4-13.0 H, Q, R, K, N, E, D

SSPb Helix Predicted by SSpro [31]
Strand
Coil

Solvent Buried Predicted by ACCpro [32]
Exposed

anormalized van der Waals volume; bsecondary structure propensity.