I'm trying to calculate the solvent accessible surface area for several lysine residues in a protein to evaluate which are most likely to be free on the surface for functionalization. My thought was to just calculate the SAS area and rank order them. When I select just the primary amine of all the lysine residues and go to the reply log I get several numbers in a row under SAS and I'm not sure which are correct. These numbers don't seem to change if I select different residues so I'm not sure how to get the SAS values just for my lysine amines.
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David Chenoweth
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
Swager Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chemistry Department, 18-053
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email:
dcheno@mit.eduLab Phone: 617-258-6537
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