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Abstract
A collection of 32 stroma-targeting chloroplast transit peptides with known cleavage sites have been analysed in terms of amino acid preferences in the vicinity of the processing site. A loosely conserved consensus motif (Val/Ile)-X-(Ala/Cys) decreases Ala is found in the majority of the transit peptides. About 30% of the sequences have a perfect match to the consensus. When such a match is found, there is a 90% probability that it specifies the correct cleavage site.Entities:
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Year: 1990 PMID: 2311769 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)80614-o
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEBS Lett ISSN: 0014-5793 Impact factor: 4.124