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Identification of the amino acid residues essential for proteolytic activity in an archaeal signal peptide peptidase.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 14 Apr 2006
Matsumi Rie, Atomi Haruyuki, Imanaka Tadayuki
Abstract excerpt
Signal peptide peptidases (SPPs) are enzymes involved in the initial degradation of signal peptides after they are released from the precursor proteins by signal peptidases. In contrast to the eukaryotic enzymes that are aspartate peptidases, the catalytic mechanisms of prokaryotic SPPs had not been known. In this study on the SPP from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis (SppA(Tk)), we have...
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