Differential localization and identification of a critical aspartate suggest non-redundant proteolytic functions of the presenilin homologues SPPL2b and SPPL3.

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Signal peptide peptidase (SPP) is an unusual aspartyl protease that mediates clearance of signal peptides by proteolysis within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Like presenilins, which provide the proteolytically active subunit of the gamma-secretase complex, SPP contains a critical GXGD motif in its C-terminal catalytic center. Although SPP is known to be an aspartyl protease of the GXGD type, several presenilin...

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