A new method for predicting signal sequence cleavage sites
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 14 (11), 4683-4690
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/14.11.4683
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.Keywords
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