Category:SO:0000725 ! transit peptide

id: SO:0000725
name: transit_peptide
alt_id: BS:00055
def: "The transit_peptide is a short region at the N-terminus of the peptide that directs the protein to an organelle (chloroplast, mitochondrion, microbody or cyanelle)." [1]
comment: Added to bring SO inline with the embl ddbj genbank feature table. Old definition before biosapiens: The coding sequence for an N-terminal domain of a nuclear-encoded organellar protein. This domain is involved in post translational import of the protein into the organelle.
subset: biosapiens
subset: SOFA
synonym: "signal" RELATED []
synonym: "transit" RELATED [uniprot:feature_type]
synonym: "transit peptide" EXACT []
is_a: SO:0001527 ! peptide_localization_signal

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