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Protein Therapies

Reports from F.N. Vogtle and colleagues advance knowledge in protein therapies

Published in Proteomics Weekly, December 7th, 2009

According to a study from Dortmund, Germany, "Many mitochondrial proteins are synthesized with N-terminal presequences that are removed by specific peptidases. The N-termini of the mature proteins and thus peptidase cleavage sites have only been determined for a small fraction of mitochondrial proteins and yielded a controversial situation for the cleavage site specificity of the major mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP)."

"We report a global analysis of the N-proteome of yeast mitochondria, revealing the N-termini of 615 different proteins. Significantly more proteins than predicted contained cleavable presequences. We identified the intermediate cleaving...

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