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SUBMITTER: van Roosmalen ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC94698 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Roosmalen M L ML Jongbloed J D JD Kuipers A A Venema G G Bron S S van DijL J M JM
Journal of bacteriology 20001001 20
Soluble forms of Bacillus signal peptidases which lack their unique amino-terminal membrane anchor are prone to degradation, which precludes their high-level production in the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli. Here, we show that the degradation of soluble forms of the Bacillus signal peptidase SipS is largely due to self-cleavage. First, catalytically inactive soluble forms of this signal peptidase were not prone to degradation; in fact, these mutant proteins were produced at very high levels in E. ...[more]