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. 2022 Jan 18;12:936. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-04976-8

Table 1.

Spike proteins LCRs reported in this work for the Delta, Iota and Kappa variants.

Name Spike LCR  ~ Start position  ~ End position Variants Nº of amino acids * Molecular
Weight *
Theoretical pI * Aliphatic
index *
Grand average of hydropathicity *
Spike LCR-1 FVFLVLLPLV 2 11 All (except for Iota) 10 1159.52 5.52 243.00 3.180
Spike LCR-2 GGSSSGWTAGAAA 252 264 Iota 13 1079.09 5.52 30.77 0.123
Spike LCR-3 SRRRARSVASQSIIA 680 694 Delta, Kappa 15 1657.90 12.48 91.33 − 0.407
Spike LCR-4 LQNVVNQNAQALN 948 960 Delta 13 1425.56 5.52 120.00 − 0.377

The position of each LCR in the spike sequence is indicated. The first letter of the name corresponds to the protein in which the LCR is located, and the number corresponds to its position in each of the SARS-CoV-2 proteins. (*) This information was derived from https://www.expasy.org/resources/protparam.