Abstract
A new method for identifying secretory signal sequences and for predicting the site of cleavage between a signal sequence and the mature exported protein is described. The predictive accuracy is estimated to be around 75-80% for both prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins.
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BiologyCleavage (geology)Sequence (biology)Library scienceGeneticsComputer sciencePaleontology
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- 1986
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- article
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 4683-4690
- Citations
- 4552
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Gunnar von Heijne
(1986).
A new method for predicting signal sequence cleavage sites.
Nucleic Acids Research
, 14
(11)
, 4683-4690.
https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/14.11.4683
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- DOI
- 10.1093/nar/14.11.4683