Research Article

Local Packing Density Is the Main Structural Determinant of the Rate of Protein Sequence Evolution at Site Level

Table 4

Variance partitioning.

FitContribution %

CS~WCN + RSATTotal0.408 ± 0.010100
Common0.314 ± 0.00975.20 ± 1.22
Unique WCN 0.078 ± 0.00419.49 ± 1.03
Unique RSAT0.016 ± 0.0015.31 ± 0.66

NOTE: fit is the bivariate linear fit considered, is the explained variance averaged over the dataset of 216 enzymes ± its standard deviation, and % is the proportion of explained variance accounted for by the given contribution.