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CHLPEP—A database of chloroplast transit peptides

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Transit peptides are N-terminal extensions that serve to route nuclearencoded proteins into chloroplasts. We have collected amino acid sequences for approximately 260 transit peptides, and have constructed a database that presently runs under FileMaker Plus on Macintosh personal computers. In addition, the collection is available as an ASCII-file, either in a tab-delimited format suitable for import into other database programs, or in a format with line-identifiers similar to the widely used Swiss Prot database. We hope that the plant molecular biology community will help us ensure that the collection is kept up to date by submitting new sequences directly to us.

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  1. Department of Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute Center for Biotechnology, NOVUM, S-141 52, Huddinge, Sweden

    Gunnar von Heijne

  2. 25th Research Department, Protein Engineering Research Institute, 6-2-3 Furuedai, Suita, 565, Osaka, Japan

    Teruhisa Hirai

  3. Botanisches Institut der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Menzinger Strasse 67, D-8000, München 19, Germany

    Ralf-Bernd Klösgen, Johannes Steppuhn & Reinhold Herrmann

  4. Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, 53706, Madison, WI, USA

    Barry Bruce & Ken Keegstra

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von Heijne, G., Hirai, T., Klösgen, RB. et al. CHLPEP—A database of chloroplast transit peptides. Plant Mol Biol Rep 9, 104–126 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02669204

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