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Table 1 Attributes used for predicting functional effects of missense mutations

From: Predicting the effect of missense mutations on protein function: analysis with Bayesian networks

Abbreviation

Type

Description

Information

effect

Discrete

Effect of mutation on functionality

Class

ac

Continuous

Solvent accessible area of native AA

 

rac

Continuous

Accessibility relative to maximum accessibility in training set

 

bf

Continuous

Normalised B-factor of native AA

 

nbf

Continuous

Normalised B-factor of structural neighbourhood of native AA

Structural

bur

Discrete

Mutant AA is charged AA at buried site

 

trn

Discrete

Mutant AA occurs at glycine or proline in a turn

 

hlx

Discrete

Mutant AA occurs in helical region and involves glycine or proline

 

ifc

Discrete

Native AA is near subunit interface

 

nrent

Continuous

Phylogenetic entropy of structural neighbourhood of native AA

Structural + Evolutionary

rent

Continuous

Normalised phylogenetic entropy of native AA

 

cnsd

Discrete

Native AA is at conserved position in phylogenetic profile

 

ncnsd

Discrete

Native AA is near conserved position in phylogenetic profile

Evolutionary

uslaa

Discrete

Mutant AA is not in phylogenetic profile

 

uslby

Discrete

Mutant AA is not in the smallest AA class that includes the phylogenetic profile