Table 5 A summary of the GSGS folding trajectories.

Protein

Name: GSGS or Beta3s; Primary sequence: 20 residues; Designed protein;

Native fold: three stranded anti-parallel β-sheets with turns at 6–7 and 14–15

Trajectory

Five trajectories: T 1, T 2, T 3, T 4 and T 5;

T 1 : 25, 664 conformations; T 2 : 30, 075 conformations;

T 3 : 19, 649 conformations; T 4 : 25, 263 conformations;

T 5 : 25, 664 conformations;

Contact map

Based on contacts between α-carbons.

Two α-carbons are in contact if their Euclidian distance is ≤ 8.5 Å

Bit-patterns

A total of 50, 572 unique maximally connected bit-patterns were identified from all conformations;

Average number of bit-patterns per conformation is 4;

Bit-patterns are further classified into 12 approximately equivalent types

Interacting bit-patterns

If at least one pair of α-carbons, one from each bit-pattern, is of Euclidian distance ≤ 10 Å

Frequent SOAPs

A SOAP is frequent if it appears in ≥ 10 conformations;