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Measurement of Hydrophobicity Distribution in Proteins � Complete Redundant Protein Data Bank.

  • Kinga Sałapa EMAIL logo , Barbara Kalinowska , Tomasz Jadczyk and Irena Roterman
Published/Copyright: January 1, 2012
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Abstract

The divergence entropy: O/T and O/R measuring the distance between observed/theoretical and observed/random distributions was applied to identify the category of protein structures in respect to the hydrophobic core in protein molecules. The naive interpretation was applied treating the proteins of O/T < O/R as the molecules of hydrophobic core accordant with the theoretically assumed. The proteins of O/T > O/R are treated as representing the hydrophobic core not accordant with the assumed one. The large scale computing was performed (PDB data set) to reveal whether other than simple inequality relation should be used for this identification. The cluster analysis was applied to identify the relation O/T versus O/R as the discrimination factor to classify the category of proteins in respect to their structural form of hydrophobic core.

Received: 2012-03-6
Revised: 2012-03-23
Accepted: 2012-03-26
Published Online: 2012
Published in Print: 2012

©Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Kraków, Poland, 2012

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