Figure 5.
Schematic of inference and validation of the α-helix rule and hydropathy contradiction rule. For the α-helix rule, we made inferences based on positive variants of four enzymes obtained by random mutagenesis screening. The rule was inferred by saturating mutagenesis at these sites in ChMOX (Val455) and AtADC (Leu435). On the other hand, for the hydropathy contradiction rule, we made inferences based on sequence analysis of MeHNL. The rule was validated by identifying five candidate hotspots in SuPDH. Finally, we evaluated the effectiveness of the rules by applying the method to MpLUC and hGH.