Brucella abortus catalase is a periplasmic protein lacking a standard signal sequence

• DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.23.7375-7377.1994
• Publication Date: 2016-11-07T21:13:38Z
• Authors: Z Sha; T J Stabel; J E Mayfield
• Keywords: 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences; Base Sequence; Cell Membrane; Molecular Sequence Data; Brucella abortus; Amino Acid Sequence; Protein Sorting Signals; Catalase; Cell Compartmentation

A periplasmic catalase has been purified and cloned from Brucella abortus. The functional enzyme is a tetramer with a subunit molecular weight of 55,000. All evidence indicates that a typical N-terminal signal sequence is not associated with the export of this protein to the periplasm.