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Different minimal signal peptide lengths recognized by the archaeal prepilin-like peptidases FlaK and PibD.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Nov 2009
Ng Sandy Y M, VanDyke David J, Chaban Bonnie, Wu John, Nosaka Yoshika, Aizawa Shin-Ichi, Jarrell Ken F
Abstract excerpt
In Archaea, the preflagellin peptidase (a type IV prepilin-like peptidase designated FlaK in Methanococcus voltae and Methanococcus maripaludis) is the enzyme that cleaves the N-terminal signal peptide from preflagellins. In methanogens and several other archaeal species, the typical flagellin signal peptide length is 11 to 12 amino acids, while in other archaea preflagellins possess extremely short signal...
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