Table Info

Table 1.

Variation of the experimental hydrophobicity index (HI) using as separation mode acetonitrile (% ACN) in RP HPLC 0.1 % of formic acid for modified (acetylated) and non-modified peptide pairs

Acetylated lysine residues in peptide (number of peptide pairs)	Experimental hydrophobicity index (ΔHI) in RP HPLC 0.1% formic acid (% ACN)	Δ(Ac)Lys	ΔΔHI/Δ(Ac)Lys
0 (10,632)	5.02	-	-
1 (13,791)	9.14	1	4.12
2 (2,390)	11.20	2	6.18
3 (316)	12.54	3	7.52

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Author contributions

AV and WJZ: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. PM and DBR: Investigation, Data curation, Visualization, Writing—review & editing.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Availability of data and materials

The datasets generated and/or analyzed for this study can be found in the NSAAs-Lipophilicity Github repository: https://github.com/tviayna/NSAAs-Lipophilicity.

Funding

The authors thank the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación [PID2020-117646RB-I00, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033], Generalitat de Catalunya [2021SGR00671], and Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya [CSUC; Molecular Recognition project] for financial support. The authors thank the Vice Chancellor for Research of the University of Costa Rica for its support work via the research project [115-C1-450]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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