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Classifying lipoproteins based on their polar profiles
Carlos Polanco1, Jorge Alberto Castañón-González2, Thomas Buhse3
1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, C.P. 04510 D.F., México.
Abstract:
The lipoproteins are an important group of cargo proteins known for their unique capability to transport lipids. By applying the Polarity index algorithm, which has a metric that only considers the polar profile of the linear sequences of the lipoprotein group, we obtained an analytical and structural differentiation of all the lipoproteins found in UniProt Database. Also, the functional groups of lipoproteins, and particularly of the set of lipoproteins relevant to atherosclerosis, were analyzed with the same method to reveal their structural preference, and the results of Polarity index analysis were verified by an alternate test, the Cumulative Distribution Function algorithm, applied to the same groups of lipoproteins.
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