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Recognition of secretory proteins in Escherichia coli requires signals in addition to the signal sequence and slow folding.
BMC microbiology - 11 Nov 2002
Mallik Ipsita, Smith Margaret A, Flower Ann M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The Sec-dependent protein export apparatus of Escherichia coli is very efficient at correctly identifying proteins to be exported from the cytoplasm. Even bacterial strains that carry prl mutations, which allow export of signal sequence-defective precursors, accurately differentiate between cytoplasmic and mutant secretory proteins. It was proposed previously that the basis for this precise...
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