Signal peptides: exquisitely designed transport promoters.

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Prokaryotic proteins destined for transport out of the cytoplasm typically contain an N-terminal extension sequence, called the signal peptide, which is required for export. It is evident that many secretory proteins utilize a common export system, yet the signal sequences themselves display very little primary sequence homology. In attempting to understand how different signal peptides are able to promote...

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