Table 2.
Linear Correlation Coefficients between Amino Acid Properties and Amino Acid Frequencies Observed in Hydrophilic I-c Regions
| Amino acid property | P. falciparum | |
| Hydrophobicity | ||
| Kyte & Doolittle (1982) | −0.23 (−0.70 ÷ 0.37) | |
| Karplus (1997) | −0.15 (−0.65 ÷ 0.44) | |
| Volume (NIST Chemistry WebBook) | −0.02 (−0.57 ÷ 0.54) | |
| Flexibility (Vihinen et al. 1994) | 0.44 (−0.15 ÷ 0.80) | |
| A content in codons | 0.73 (0.29 ÷ 0.91) | |
| T content in codons | −0.08 (−0.61 ÷ 0.50) | |
| Amino acid property | S. cerevisiae | D. discoideum |
| Hydrophobicity | ||
| Kyte & Doolittle (1982) | −0.23 (−0.70 ÷ 0.37) | −0.26 (−0.71 ÷ 0.34) |
| Karplus (1997) | −0.31 (−0.74 ÷ 0.30) | −0.37 (−0.77 ÷ 0.23) |
| Volume (NIST Chemistry WebBook) | −0.43 (−0.79 ÷ 0.16) | −0.40 (−0.78 ÷ 0.20) |
| Flexibility (Vihinen et al. 1994) | 0.67 (0.18 ÷ 0.89) | 0.63 (0.11 ÷ 0.88) |
| A content in codons | 0.40 (−0.20 ÷ 0.78) | 0.53 (−0.03 ÷ 0.84) |
| T content in codons | −0.33 (−0.75 ÷ 0.27) | −0.30 (−0.73 ÷ 0.31) |
