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Table 2 Solvent accessibility of indel sites and loops.

From: Indel PDB: A database of structural insertions and deletions derived from sequence alignments of closely related proteins

Minimal indel length

1

5

10

15

20

indel – avg. solvent accessibility

59.53

60.36

60.03

58.46

60.50

loop – avg. solvent accessibility

49.26

47.62

47.55

44.64

44.21

t test value

98.74

85.06

47.53

32.38

25.87

p value

0

0

0

0

0

  1. Solvent accessibility was measured by (the number of water molecules in contact with a residue) multiplied by 10 or (residue water exposed surface in Angstrom)2, according to the DSSP program. The higher the solvent accessibility value, the more exposed the residue is.