Analyses on clustering of the conserved residues at protein-RNA interfaces and its application in binding site identification

Table 1 Occurring percentage and average sequence entropy of interior, interface and non-interface surface residues

Parameters	Protein peptides complexed with					All peptides
Parameters	mRNA	tRNA	rRNA	viral RNA	other RNA	All peptides
% residues in
interior	21.50	26.72	24.35	21.60	24.36	25.10
interface	14.76	11.45	13.27	10.80	11.24	11.61
non-interface surface	63.76	61.83	62.38	67.60	64.40	63.29
Average < s>
interior	0.18	0.40	0.34	0.19	0.29	0.34
interface	0.50	0.73	0.67	0.48	0.57	0.64
non-interface surface	0.92	1.16	1.05	0.62	1.02	1.05

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