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. 2010 Oct 21;8(3):180–189. doi: 10.1016/S1672-0229(10)60020-4

Table 1.

Analysis of amino acid representation in the analyzed protein sequences of human and yeast

Human
Yeast
Amino acid Overall (%) Second position (%) Third position (%) Fourth position (%) Overall (%) Second position (%) Third position (%) Fourth position (%)
A 7.02 22.9 11.9 9.8 5.60 7.93 5.8 4.5
C 2.33 0.8 1.8 1.9 1.29 0.75 0.9 0.9
D 4.84 6.2 4.3 3.0 5.83 5.25 5.1 5.0
E 6.95 9.1 6.1 6.1 6.55 4.30 6.1 6.5
F 3.76 1.8 2.9 3.4 4.49 3.71 4.8 5.0
G 6.72 7.5 7.0 6.6 5.06 4.59 4.4 3.0
H 2.57 0.9 1.9 1.7 2.13 1.41 2.0 1.8
I 4.49 1.5 2.2 3.0 6.54 3.24 5.8 6.0
K 5.67 4.6 4.0 4.7 7.30 5.93 8.3 7.4
L 9.86 5.5 9.8 11.7 9.53 6.62 8.1 9.4
M 2.19 1.6 1.7 2.1 2.08 1.58 1.7 1.3
N 3.69 3.6 3.0 3.1 6.08 5.42 5.5 6.3
P 6.14 4.9 8.1 8.1 4.33 4.42 3.5 4.8
Q 4.69 2.4 3.5 4.3 3.91 2.55 4.2 4.6
R 5.55 5.0 7.1 7.1 4.43 2.88 6.0 5.8
S 8.03 11.4 10.5 9.5 8.93 23.74 12.5 11.5
T 5.35 4.4 6.3 5.4 5.86 7.55 6.1 6.9
V 6.11 3.8 5.0 5.2 5.64 6.04 5.5 5.3
W 1.22 1.2 1.5 1.5 1.05 0.58 0.7 0.7
Y 2.81 0.9 1.3 1.8 3.35 1.51 3.1 3.1

Note: The most abundant amino acids (L, A and S) are presented in bold.