Amino Acid Residue Distancea Hydrophobicity valueb
Dab 3.9 Å -9.5
Orn 5.0 Å -9.0
Lys 6.4 Å -9.9
Arg 7.0 Å -10.0
a. distance in angstroms from Cα carbon of the peptide backbone to the positively charged nitrogen atom(s)
b. combined consensus scale hydrophobicity for each charge residue
Table 2: Physical Data for the basic amino acid residues used in this study.