Category:SO:0000418 ! signal peptide

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id: SO:0000418
name: signal_peptide
alt_id: BS:00159
def: "The signal_peptide is a short region of the peptide located at the N-terminus that directs the protein to be secreted or part of membrane components." [1]
comment: Old def before biosapiens:The sequence for an N-terminal domain of a secreted protein; this domain is involved in attaching nascent polypeptide to the membrane leader sequence.
subset: biosapiens
subset: SOFA
synonym: "signal" RELATED [uniprot:feature_type]
synonym: "signal peptide" EXACT []
synonym: "signal peptide coding sequence" EXACT []
xref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_peptide "wiki"
is_a: SO:0001527 ! peptide_localization_signal
part_of SO:0001062 ! propeptide

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Date Created	Date Last Edited	Date Obsoleted	Date Last Checked
2004-06-15	2010-05-28	0000-00-00	2011-10-11
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