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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 2:1068-1085, 2003.
© 2003 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.

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Transit Peptide Cleavage Sites of Integral Thylakoid Membrane Proteins^*

Stephen M. Gómez^,, Karl Y. Bil’^¶, Rodrigo Aguilera, John N. Nishio^||, Kym F. Faull and Julian P. Whitelegge^,**

From the Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, ^¶ Biosphere 2, Columbia University, Oracle, Arizona 85623, and ^|| College of Natural Sciences, California State University, Chico, California 95929

A set of 58 nuclearly encoded thylakoid-integral membrane proteins from four plant species was identified, and their amino termini were assigned unequivocally based upon mass spectrometry of intact proteins and peptide fragments. The dataset was used to challenge the Web tools ChloroP, TargetP, SignalP, PSORT, Predotar, and MitoProt II for predicting organelle targeting and transit peptide proteolysis sites. ChloroP and TargetP reliably predicted chloroplast targeting but only reliably predicted transit peptide cleavage sites for soluble proteins targeted to the stroma. SignalP (eukaryote settings) accurately predicted the transit peptide cleavage site for soluble proteins targeted to the lumen. SignalP (Gram-negative bacteria settings) reliably predicted peptide cleavage of integral thylakoid proteins inserted into the membrane via the "spontaneous" pathway. The processing sites of more common thylakoid-integral proteins inserted by the signal recognition peptide-dependent pathway were not well predicted by any of the programs. The results suggest the presence of a second thylakoid processing protease that recognizes the transit peptide of integral proteins inserted via the spontaneous mechanism and that this mechanism may be related to the secretory mechanism of Gram-negative bacteria.

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