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. 2007 Dec;8(12):1687-1694.
doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2007.00661.x. Epub 2007 Oct 17.

A bioinformatics approach to identifying tail-anchored proteins in the human genome

Ted Kalbfleisch  1   2 , Alex Cambon  3 , Binks W Wattenberg  1   4   5
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A bioinformatics approach to identifying tail-anchored proteins in the human genome

Ted Kalbfleisch et al. Traffic. 2007 Dec.
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Abstract

Intracellular proteins with a carboxy-terminal transmembrane domain and the amino-terminus oriented toward the cytosol are known as 'tail-anchored' proteins. Tail-anchored proteins have been of considerable interest because several important classes of proteins, including the vesicle-targeting/fusion proteins known as SNAREs and the apoptosis-related proteins of the Bcl-2 family, among others, utilize this unique membrane-anchoring motif. Here, we use a bioinformatic technique to develop a comprehensive list of potentially tail-anchored proteins in the human genome. Our final list contains 411 entries derived from 325 unique genes. We also analyzed both known and predicted tail-anchored proteins with respect to the amino acid composition of the transmembrane segments. This analysis revealed a distinctive composition of the membrane anchor in SNARE proteins.

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