Prediction of secondary structure of human haptoglobin.

Secondary structure of alpha (light) and beta (heavy) chains of human haptoglobin was proposed. The Chou-Fasman predictive method was used in conjunction with the hydrophobic character and hydropathy scale value assigned to each amino acid residue in the primary sequence of the protein. Moreover, by means of hydrophilicity values of amino acids, the location of antigenic determinants was predicted.