Research Article

Cotranslational Protein Folding and Terminus Hydrophobicity

Figure 8

ALR against difference in terminus hydrophobicity (N−C) is shown for real proteins (90 in total). The solid lines represent proteins whose N and C-termini were defined as being the first and last 10 (blue), 20 (green), and 30 (black) residues in their sequence. The dashed red line indicates that terminus regions were defined as the first (N) and fourth (C) quartiles of a sequence after the trimming of 10% from their lengths at each end. Note that the positive relationship remains for all terminus lengths, but that is lost when the ends are removed.
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