January 1, 1989Protein Engineering Design and Selection273 citations
The structure of signal peptides from bacterial lipoproteins
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Abstract
Statistical analysis of lipoprotein and non-lipoprotein signal peptides reveals that the two classes differ significantly only in the region close to the signal peptidase cleavage site. This region is apolar and has the consensus sequence LA(G,A) decreases C in the lipoproteins, but is polar and has small, uncharged residues in positions -3 and -1 in the non-lipoproteins. A simple search for matches to the lipoprotein consensus cleavage site suffices to discriminate between the two groups with close to 100% reliability.
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Gunnar von Heijne (1989) studied this question.