Signal Recognition Particle - History

History

The function of SRP was discovered by the study of processed and unprocessed immunoglobulin light chains, newly synthesized proteins in eukaryotes carry N-terminal hydrophobic signal sequences, which are bound by SRP when they emerge from the ribosome.

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