A "signal peptide" is a short sequence of amino acids found at the beginning of a protein. It acts like a signal or label that guides the protein to the right place within a cell.
Sentences with «signal peptide»
A suite of signaling peptides and their receptors regulate tissue stability as the pollen tube navigates toward the ovule. (science.sciencemag.org)
We re-engineered the DHP8 Trg - PhoR fusion for plant expression by adding an N - terminal signal peptide from a protein with known cell membrane localization (FLS2 [16]-RRB- to produce Fls - Trg - PhoR. (journals.plos.org)
Addition of a plant signal peptide targets computationally re-designed receptors to the plant apoplast. (journals.plos.org)