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Not all transmembrane helices are born equal: Towards the extension of the sequence homology concept to membrane proteins

Wing-Cheong Wong1, Sebastian Maurer-Stroh1,2 and Frank Eisenhaber1,3,4*

Author Affiliations

1 Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 30 Biopolis Street, #07-01, Matrix, 138671 Singapore

2 School of Biological Sciences (SBS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 60 Nanyang Drive, 637551 Singapore

3 Department of Biological Sciences (DBS), National University of Singapore (NUS), 8 Medical Drive, 117597 Singapore

4 School of Computer Engineering (SCE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 50 Nanyang Drive, 637553 Singapore

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Biology Direct 2011, 6:57 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-6-57

Published: 25 October 2011

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Supplementary Table 1. This table contains the statistically-enriched residues in the anchor sets (membrane/signal) and functional TM-helix sets (UniProt/SCOP-derived) when tested against each other through 2-by-2 contingency tables.

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Additional file 2:

Supplementary Table 2. This table contains the correlation values between the four sets of statistically-enriched residues derived from Additional file 1, Supplementary Table 1 and a set of experimentally-derived hydrophobicity scale.

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