Multiple choice

Which of the following is a protein that occurs in the cell membranes of some single-celled prokaryotes?

  1. Alpha secretase

  2. Amino acid permease

  3. Archaeosortase

  4. Sheddase

  5. LRRC24

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Explanation

This option is correct. Archaeosortase is a protein that occurs in the cell membranes of some single-celled prokaryotes. Archaeosortases recognise and remove carboxyl-terminal protein sorting signals, about 25 amino acids long from secreted proteins.