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Table 1 Relative importance of interface properties to the Random Forest accuracy for discriminating specific and non-specific protein-protein interfaces.

From: Comprehensive inventory of protein complexes in the Protein Data Bank from consistent classification of interfaces

Interface Property

Relative Importance

interface area

1.0

number of intermolecular hydrogen bonds

0.553

210 contacting residues pair counts*

0.224

20 residue propensities*

0.184

evolutionary conservation

0.168

leucine residue propensity

0.104

phenylalanine residue propensity

0.0950

symmetric/non-symmetric interface

0.0896

isoleucine residue propensity

0.0753

packing density

0.0665

tyrosine residue propensity

0.0619

number of leucine-valine contacts

0.0570

Number of leucine-glutamine contacts

0.0500

  1. All properties with a relative importance of at least 0.05 are shown. An asterisk indicates a group rather than individual properties.