what is hydropathy in molecular biology
Hydropathy (Molecular Biology). A-helices can be identified in the primary structure of a membrane protein with a relatively high confidence using hydropathy analysis, in which each residue is assigned a characteristic hydrophobicity value.n example of a hydropathy prediction is shown in Figure 1. In the cases of bacteriorhodopsin, cytochrome oxidase, and bacterial photosynthetic reaction center, this simple analysis correctly identified the approximate positions of all the transmembrane helices, with no false positives.