Importance of residues carboxyl terminal relative to the cleavage site in substrates of mitochondrial processing peptidase for their specific recognition and cleavage

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1045-1049

  Song, Myeong Cheol ^a,b   Ogishima, Tadashi ^b   Ito, Akio ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial import; Mitochondrial protein degradation; Peptidase; Processing protease; Substrate recognition

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; AROMATIC AMINO ACID; HISTIDINE; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; PEPTIDASE; PHENYLALANINE; SERINE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYDROGEN BOND;

EID: 0031759086     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a022198     Document Type: Article

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