Amino Acid Categories

Amino acid categories appear in the Select menu and can be used in command-line specification.

The default amino acid categories (the default schemata in ResProp) are taken from:

"Prediction of protein secondary structure and active sites using the alignment of homologous sequences," M.J. Zvelebil, G.J. Barton, W.R. Taylor, and M. J. Sternberg, J. Mol. Biol., 195, 957 (1987).

hydrophobic positivenegative polarcharged smalltiny aromatic aliphatic
ALA X X X
ARG X X X
ASN X X
ASP X X X X
CYS X X
GLU X X X
GLN X
GLY X X X
HIS X X X X X
ILE X X
LEU X X
LYS X X X X
MET X
PHE X X
PRO X
SER X X X
THR X X X
TRP X X X
TYR X X X
VAL X X X

UCSF Computer Graphics Laboratory / January 2009