title: Classifying lipoproteins based on their polar profiles.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, C.P. 04510 D.F., México.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Polanco
authors.affiliation: Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Biomedical Research, Hospital Juárez de México, D.F. 07760 México.
authors.forename: Jorge Alberto
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Castañón-González
authors.affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones Químicas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, C.P. 62209 Chamilpa, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Buhse
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Medicine and USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, MDC07 Tampa, FL 33647, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia.
authors.forename: Vladimir N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Uversky
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Anahuac, C.P. 52786 Huixquilucan Estado de Mexico, México.
authors.forename: Rafael Zonana
authors.initials: RZ
authors.lastname: Amkie
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D050197:Atherosclerosis; D019295:Computational Biology; D006801:Humans; D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification*; D017510:Protein Folding; D000072416:Protein Structural Elements; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D008074:Lipoproteins