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Table 1 Physicochemical attributes used in the study

From: A strategy to select suitable physicochemical attributes of amino acids for protein fold recognition

No.

Attributes

Symbols

1

Hydrophibicity (membrane buried helix) [36]

H

2

Polarity [37]

P

3

Polarizability parameter [38]

Z

4

Normalized frequency of alpha-helix [39]

X

5

Normalized van der Waals volume [40]

V

6

alpha-NH chemical shifts [41]

S

7

A parameter of charge transfer capability [42]

C

8

The Kerr-constant increments [43]

K

9

Normalized hydrophobicity scales for beta-proteins [44]

B

10

Normalized frequency of beta-sheet [45]

F

11

Normalized frequency of beta-turn [45]

T

12

Normalized frequency of reverse turn, with weights [46]

R

13

Size [47]

E

14

Amino acid composition [48]

A

15

Frequency of the 1st residue in turn [45]

F

16

Spin-spin coupling constants 3JHalpha-NH [41]

N

17

Relative mutability [49]

M

18

Direction of hydrophobic moment [50]

D

19

Molecular weight [51]

W

20

Optical rotation [51]

O

21

Aperiodic indices for alpha-proteins [52]

a

22

Aperiodic indices for beta-proteins [52]

b

23

Aperiodic indices for alpha/beta-proteins [52]

c

24

Volume [53]

U

25

Partition energy [54]

I

26

Heat capacity [55]

Q

27

Absolute entropy [55]

L

28

Average accessible surface area [56]

G

29

Percentage of buried residues [56]

J

30

Percentage of exposed residues [56]

Y