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1Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Abstract:
Type I signal peptidase is the enzyme responsible for cleaving off the amino-terminal signal peptide from proteins that are secreted across the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane. It is an essential membrane bound enzyme whose serine/lysine catalytic dyad resides on the exo-cytoplasmic surface of the bacterial membrane. This review discusses the progress that has been made in the structural and mechanistic characterization of Escherichia coli type I signal peptidase (SPase I) as well as efforts to develop a novel class of antibiotics based on SPase I inhibition. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Protein trafficking and secretion in bacteria. Guest Editors: Anastassios Economou and Ross Dalbey.
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